Covering Sets
Saturday, March 8, 2008
So, I’ve been thinking lately about repetition. For a while I was trying to figure out at what point repetition might stop acting as simple duplication and become a prescription of the duplicating act itself. To take “A rose is a rose is a rose” for example: Stein herself has used it other places with […]
Gertrude Stein and Nouns
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
In her pursuit of finding “a way of naming things that would not invent names, but mean names without naming them,” Gertrude Stein made the following statements (among many others) about nouns:
“Things once they are named the name does not go on doing anything to them and so why write in nouns. . . […]