Pedantology

There would still remain the never-resting mind,
So that one would want to escape, come back
To what had been so long composed.
The imperfect is our paradise.
Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.
--Wallace Stevens, Poems of Our Climate

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Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons

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  Um, I think I should send this to my 11th grade English teacher.
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  I just read some short stories of hers… WTF THE ACTUAL FUCK? serious S. Beckett : Watt flashbacks
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  yeah i don’t understand at all
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  Just kill me now.
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  I’m reading this book right now. or trying to read it. or. shoot.
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  this is applicable to every GStein book ever. which is why I love her.
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