At least they mostly do not like it that everyone is of a kind of men
and women and I see it. I love it and I write it.'
"I want readers so strangers must do it. Mostly no one knowing me can
like it that I love it that every one is a kind of men and women, that
always I am looking and comparing and classifying of them, always I am
seeing their repeating. Always more and more I love repeating, it may
be irritating to hear from them but always more and more I love it of
them."
That, of course, is Gertrude Stein.
I can read and have read Gertrude Stein, and William Burroughs, and
Herman Melville, and I have relished such moments with a kind of
obsession.
I prefer the two screens simultaneously of Chelsea Girls to virtually
any single-image narrative movie out of Hollywood.
To think one needs to (or even can) understand is antithetical to
pleasure.
What could be more boring than understanding something at first glance?
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