Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men. Does this change. It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume.
Gertrude Stein
For me, the giant of 20th century literature. She took creative writing so far forward that the world still hasn't caught up. She understood, very early on, that man is (or should be) moving away from object and objectification, and into process and connexion. She studied psychology under William James, doing a final year dissertation on automatic writing. She had enormous confidence, intelligence and talent; and some pretty amazing friends (Picasso, Matisse, Whitehead, Hemingway...). She would write at night in near darkness, entranced, scrawling in a large, barely legible hand, dredging her unconscious for the secrets of humanity strangled out of our awareness by the individual and collective thinking mind. The University of California Press have just published a new Selected Writing edited and introduced by Joan Retallack.
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