One year ago today I began this blog and have in those twelve months written 16,394 words – not quite a novel’s worth of words, but a good start even though Gertrude Stein’s major opus THE MAKING OF AMERICANS contains 517,207 words.
"Gertrude and Alice," hand-in-hand for the blog anniversary by Bruce Kellner, 1982
Over the years I have seen many attempts to copy Stein’s writing whether as an exercise in a creative writing class, as a spoof ( something that has been done ever since her first writings appeared more than 100 years ago), or as an acknowledgement of the power of her creative use of words. As a tribute to her and the power words, I have taken the first two words and last two words of each blog to create the following Steinian piece:
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BLOG LOG, LOG BLOG
One of to follow
When I the morning
At the for life
The envelope so mundane
"...so mundane"
As a is round
In the this week
Sixty three no answers
As I du Fleurus
"I have often walked down this street before..."
And she is it
A few next IPO
One of “There, there”
It’s fashion buy art
In a the hat
"...the hat," Matisse, 1905
When I on him
The puppies a Thanksgiving
People often user = 1fxhrwbaixbwi
For more Year! Hans
From the Year! ABT
ABT always on the run by Tom Hachtman
This past for art
On this happy birthday
Last November Rose again
In the Babette’s Feast
Alphabets and about “Mildew”
"Out,out damn mildew!"
My Mesdames Monique Truong
Last summer Chicken Left-overs
OK, I Gertrude Stein
GS holding court by Tom Hachtman
As a hundred years.
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That’s another 328 words so only 499,485 to go and I’ll have my own MAKING OF AMERICANS !
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