from "Tender Buttons: Objects"
By Gertrude Stein
1914

Back to Index

A PIANO.

If the speed is open, if the color is careless, if the selection
of a strong scent is not awkward, if the button holder is held
by all the waving color and there is no color, not any color. If
there is no dirt in a pin and there can be none scarcely, if
there is not then the place is the same as up standing.

This is no dark custom and it even is not acted in any such
a way that a restraint is not spread. That is spread, it shuts
and it lifts and awkwardly not awkwardly the centre is in
standing.

Back to Index