Stein says in “A Transatlantic Interview,” “in composition one thing was as important as another thing.
I reread the passage above multiple times, but still got lost in the nuances of the phrase “loving repeating.” One thing to know when deciphering Stein is she experimented with how individual words created tension within the poem. Loving repeating then in some is their natural way of complete being. Loving repeating in some is a going on always in them of earthly being, in some it is the way to completed understanding. More and more in living as growing young men and women and grown men and women and men and women in their middle living, more and more there comes to be in them differences in loving repeating in different kinds of men and women, there comes to be in some more and in some less loving repeating. In some children there is more feeling and in repeating eating and playing, in some in story-telling and their feeling. In some it is repeating that gives to them always a solid feeling of being. Here’s an example:Īs I was saying loving repeating being is in a way earthly being. Perhaps reading Gertrude Stein or understanding Gertrude Stein. There are stranger problems than trying to diagram sentences from Gertrude Stein. “There should be an app for this.” And there should be.