GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS (Collection of Stories, Poems and Plays). Gertrude Stein
there are many kinds of this kind of them. They are talking, often talking and they are doing things with pieces of them while they are talking and they are then sounding like something, they are then certainly sounding in a way that is a way that is a natural way for them to be sounding, they are having noise come out of them in a natural way for them to have noise come out of them. There are very many of them, not at all too many of them. Very many hear them, quite enough hear them. There are not too many of them not at all too many of them, they are talking, they are moving their fingers and their arms and their hands then and they have noises coming out of them and some are hearing them, quite a number hear them and some like them, very many like them, very many tell about liking them, some do not like them, some tell about not liking them.
Some are smaller than others, some are darker than others, some are harsher than others, some are sweeter than others, some are queerer than other, some are older than others, some have more hair on them than others, some are softer than others, some are quicker than others, some have longer nails than others, some have one longer nail than others, some look longer at some than others, some wear more things on them than others, some wear more kinds of colors than others, some are stronger than others, some are noisier than others, some are more respectful than others, some are braver than others, some are quieter than others, some are not lovelier than others.
There are very many of one kind of them and they are not all the same, certainly not all the same. They are in a way the same and yet not so much so that some of them are not altogether like some who are not at all of that kind of them. When there are very many of them together they are more like each other, they are and they seem to be and that is natural. They are, that is natural because they are together. They seem to be, and that is natural because what is in one is carried over to the other one by it being in the feeling of the one looking at the one and then at the other one.
There are a good many of that kind of them and it is a good thing, certainly it is not a bad thing. Certainly not any one is really objecting to their being ones being existing. They are ones who are being living and then they go on being living and some of them are not then being living, and they like it being living and they can bear it to be not being living. It is not a sad thing that they are not being living those who are not being living. It is not a sad thing that they are being living those who are being living. It is a gentle thing. It is a lively enough thing. It is a pleasant enough thing. It is an important enough thing. There are very many of them who are not any longer being living. It is an accepted thing. It is a quiet thing. It is a pleasant thing. It is a certain thing. It is a thing not remembered, not forgotten. It is a thing existing. It is a thing persisting. It is a thing contenting any one. It is a thing disturbing some. It is a thing any one can have had happen in knowing any place where some of this kind of them have been living.
It is a kind of them who are existing who are ones very many are visiting. Very many always have been visiting them. Very many are going on visiting them and that is a natural thing.
They will do something and they do do things and they will offer to do something and they will then not be surprised if they are not succeeding. They will expect something and they are surprised if they are not succeeding and some of them are surprised and are quick then and some of them are surprised and are slow then and they are surprised and really then being surprised is not existing in them, really not, they are not surprised that they have not been succeeding. Certainly some of them are surprised if they are not succeeding but certainly being alike all of them is in not being surprised that they are not succeeding.
There are very many of them. And they are alike, all of them. Certainly they are not alike all of them. Certainly not. They are certainly not alike all of them. They are alike all of them. They are expecting something, they are doing some things, they are offering some things. They are not surprised that they are not succeeding.
It is not a melancholy thing being one of them. It is not an interesting thing being one of them. It is not an exciting thing being one of them, it is not an important thing being all of them. It is an important enough thing being all of them. It is a pleasant thing being with them. It is not a pleasant thing expecting anything from them. It is not a disconcerting thing expecting anything from them. It is an agreeable thing knowing about them. It is an exciting thing first hearing about them. It is a delightful thing coming among them although it is a frightening thing the first seeing of them. It is a very pleasant thing living where they are living. It is a completely pleasant thing living where they are living. It is a troublesome thing waiting for any one of them. It is a troublesome thing waiting for them to go on finishing anything. It is not an exasperating, not a disconcerting thing waiting for any one of them.
They are certainly ones deciding something. They are certainly ones expecting anything. They are certainly ones not despairing in being ones being living. They are certainly ones not certain that they will be expecting anything. They are certainly ones deciding something. They are not ones deciding that they will be ones expecting something. They are not ones despairing. They are ones expecting something. They are ones deciding something. They are ones not deciding that they will be expecting something. They are ones not certain that they will be expecting something.
It is a pleasant thing to be living among them. They are not interested in this thing. They are not at all interested in this thing. They are smiling. They are not interested in this thing. They are expecting something. They are interested in this thing. They are not certain they will be expecting something. They are feeling this thing. They are then deciding something.
They like being living. They are not interested in this thing. They are quickly being existing. They are interested in this thing. They have been existing. They are not interested in this thing. They are going on being living. They are not interested in this thing. They are deciding something. They are not interested in that thing. They are doing something, they are going to be doing something. They are interested in that thing. They are going to be doing some other thing. They are interested in that thing. They are quicker than others who are slower. They are not interested in that thing. They are slower than others who are quicker. They are not interested in that thing. They are quicker than others who are slower. That is astonishing but not to them. They are slower than others who are quicker. That is not astonishing and not to them. They are quicker and they are slower and certainly this is in all of them and certainly this is astonishing to some coming to understand this thing. They certainly are deciding something. They are not interested in this thing. They are interested in everything. They are expecting something. They are not certain that they will be expecting something. They are deciding something then. They are not interested in this thing in deciding something, in having been deciding something.
There are a good many of them. They are certainly different one from the other of them, quite different one from the other one of them and this is quite a troublesome thing and quite not an interesting thing to some. There are quite enough of them. They are certainly each one of them quite different from the others of them. There are some of them like others of them. This is a pleasant thing to some. There are some who are like others of them and some of such of them are ones who are completely being that thing being a kind of one which is a kind of one that is one giving to some a feeling of being an arranged one that is in the whole of them a thing not exciting, not disconcerting, that is a thing that is a thing that is growing in a certain arrangement that is a solid, unexciting, definite, beautiful enough thing, that is a thing that is something that each one being that one is in some way knowing, that is a thing that some are admiring, that is a thing that is not intensely interesting any one, that is a thing that is a beautiful thing in being a beautiful kind of existing thing, that is a thing that is a very agreeable thing and one is liking and one is noticing that thing.
There are very many being existing who are ones who are talking quite often and they are sounding as they are looking, as they are acting, as they are being. They are certainly sounding very pleasant when they are not sounding harsh and terrifying and unpleasant. They are certainly sounding pleasantly and that is sometimes a surprising thing and it is sometimes a surprising thing that they are not always pleasantly sounding. It is quite a serious thing deciding if they are pleasing to one or not pleasing to one. It is quite a serious thing coming to a decision. If they are pleasing to one that is an important thing. If they are not pleasing to one that is an important thing.