from "Tender Buttons: Objects"
By Gertrude Stein
1914

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A RED HAT.

A dark grey, a very dark grey, a quite dark grey is mon-
strous ordinarily, it is so monstrous because there is no red in
it. If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an
argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that
is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.

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