from "Tender Buttons: Objects"
By Gertrude Stein
1914

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A PIECE OF COFFEE.

More of double.

A place in no new table.

A single image is not splendor. Dirty is yellow. A sign of
more in not mentioned. A piece of coffee is not a detainer. The
resemblance to yellow is dirtier and distincter. The clean mix-
ture is whiter and not coal color, never more coal color than
altogether.

The sight of a reason, the same sight slighter, the sight of a
simpler negative answer, the same sore sounder, the intention
to wishing, the same splendor, the same furniture.

The time to show a message is when too late and later
there is no hanging in a blight.

A not torn rose-wood color. If it is not dangerous then a
pleasure and more than any other if it is cheap is not cheaper.
The amusing side is that the sooner there are no fewer the
more certain is the necessity dwindled. Supposing that the
case contained rose-wood and a color. Supposing that there
was no reason for a distress and more likely for a number,
supposing that there was no astonishment, is it not necessary
to mingle astonishment.

The settling of stationing cleaning is one way not to
shatter scatter and scattering. The one way to use custom
is to use soap and silk for cleaning. The one way to see cotton
is to have a design concentrating the illusion and the illustra-
tion. The perfect way is to accustom the thing to have a
lining and the shape of a ribbon and to be solid, quite solid
in standing and to use heaviness in morning. It is light
enough in that. It has that shape nicely. Very nicely may not
be exaggerating. Very strongly may be sincerely fainting.
May be strangely flattering. May not be strange in everything.
May not be strange to.

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