#OnlineAbuse - from death threats to sexual harassment - should NOT be routine on social media. English. Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. . During this horrible period of occupation, misery, and nascent civil war, my two friends lived a peaceful life, They didn’t lack courage, they didn’t lack intelligence, they didn’t lack a sense of reality, and they didn’t lack coal. This is not the book I had understood it to be, which is my fault. As I read more about them, I am not so sure. Yale University Press. Learning about them was interesting, but the book didn't thrill me. “By lifting words from the lockstep of standard usage, [Stein] stops us from unthinking association with things, ideas, and formulations,” she writes in Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises. ", Malcolm investigates the lives of Stein and Toklas and discusses some of Stein's impenetrable writing. He goes where no one else had thought of going, and comes back with trophies of great worth. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Has there been a lesbian couple of which more has been written? I left tilting my head to t. What a contradiction...Gertrude Stein and even Alice Toklas. The pair, of course, is modernist master Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." Dydo’s concern, in contrast, is with Stein’s texts, of which she is an extremely close reader, perhaps the closest reader Stein has ever had. In “Wars I Have Seen,” filled with astute observation of daily life, a reactionary tone sometimes creates discomfort. I came to Vichy quite regularly, and I telephoned the sous-prefect to remind him of his instructions. Its been printed in an exceptionally easy way and it is simply right after i finished reading this ebook where basically altered me, modify the way i believe. Dydo came across something extremely odd. This account—along with a paragraph in a letter of 1955 from Faÿ to a Mr. Monahan giving a shortened version of the story—is the only known documentary evidence of Faÿ’s intervention. I really enjoyed this book, read it in one day. She was the creative, joyful one, and Alice B. Toklas was her "wife," caretaker, and her conscious. I was glad to gain insight into how, as she asks, two Jewish lesbians survived the war. I instead found literature literature. As the inaugural scenes of Malcolm perusing The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book signal, it is instead a convention-defying intellectual hodgepodge — part memoir, part critical inquiry, part literary mystery. Alice Toklas must have initiated the elimination of the words may and May from the stanzas in the hope of purging the poems of Gertrude Stein of anything suggestive of May Bookstaver. She even spoke badly of Toklas. $25.17. It typically is not going to charge excessive. Don’t. Get updates on events, literary awards, free expression issues, and global news. Add to Cart Add to Wish List. Toklas recognized Stein’s originality when Stein’s self-confidence was at its lowest ebb. Does this mean that Faÿ was lying about his intervention in order to make himself look good? I started reading Stein on my own at Wisconsin and that was interesting.” After Wisconsin, Dydo taught for a few years at the Brearley School in Manhattan, then at Vassar, Brooklyn, and Bronx Community Colleges. And there - with just a few words from Stein - I caught a glimpse into the lighthearted word play and banter that must have been such a big part of their private lives. Yet with all this she was not at all repulsive. “It is a ramshackle old wood house. Electronic books. Pounds and pounds and pounds piled up on her skeleton—-not the billowing kind, hut massive heavy fat. Janet Malcolm begins with this question: How did two elderly Jewish lesbians survive the Nazis? At that Alice arose hastily and ran out of the room on to the terrace.” Stein went after her and returned saying that Toklas did not want her lunch. I'd never even heard of Gertrude Stein before this... and after reading this book, I don't think I'm interested in pursuing her works. While comparing the manuscript and published versions of Stanzas in Meditation. As I read more about them, I am not so sure. I was a bit 'meh' about the gossipy parts of this book - sometimes the colour of 1920s Paris can come off a bit "Henry and June" for me. Why did this information have to be in a note, hidden away at the back? As per our directory, this eBook is listed as TLGAAPDF-94, actually introduced on 28 Jan, 2021 and then take about 1,474 KB data size. The Gertrude referred to is Gertrude Stein, the impenetrable modernist par excellence and one of the subjects of Janet Malcolm's fascinating new book, Two Lives. When Dydo awoke in her stifling room at the Graduate Club she knew in a flash that the word “may” in the Stanzas was connected to May Bookstaver, the thinly disguised love object of Q.E.D. Only 11 left in stock (more on the way). Heavy-handed as the episode sounds, Janet Malcolm, who mentions it early in Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, suspects that this representation may not be that outlandish. Malcolm investigates the lives of Stein and Toklas and discusses some of Stein's impenetrable writing. As Malcolm pursues the mystery of the couple's charmed life in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. It's more about name dropping. One of her most significant corrections was to the text of Stanzas in Meditation, an austerely impenetrable work, written in 1932—the same year, as it happens, that the beguilingly easy Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written— but not published until 1956, by Yale. If things truly come in waves, we seem to be riding a Gertrude Stein tsunami. By the end of the book it wasn't so clear to me, though, why these two women chose to be together for forty years. By the end of the book it wasn't so clear to me, though, why these two women chose to be together for forty years. “It’s far more punitive for Alice to say, ‘You go there and you do it! This spring just two days before our leaving for the country she was looking for some manuscript . He now teaches at William Paterson University, in New Jersey. Twenty years ago, Dydo set herself the Herculean task of establishing a true text for Stein’s work. Gertrude was lovable, and loved Alice because she took care of her? Stein didn’t even type her work—she just oozed into her notebooks and Toklas did the rest. During one of their meetings he found an opportunity to speak “about Gertrude, her genius, the peril she was in, and, more particularly, about the danger that she might freeze to death in the coming winter.” He goes on: Before the meeting ended the Maréchal dictated a letter to the sous-prefect at Belley, entrusting Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas to his care, and directing him to see to it that they had everything needed to keep warm during the winter, as well as ration coupons for meat and butter. OK, everyone loved Gertrude, and thought Alice was a pill. Copyright © 2021 PEN America. I might never have felt sufficiently moved to seek it out and attempt to read it. Then Miss Stein’s voice came pleading and begging, saying, “Don’t, pussy. Special Order. Her literary enterprise was itself almost entirely work-free. The mystery in my mind has always been--why? “Anybody who has ever copied or memorized a Stein piece knows that it is difficult to transcribe Stein accurately,” Dydo writes in an essay called “Row to Read Gertrude Stein,” published in 1984 in the Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship. Not visible in the photograph is his limp, the result of polio in childhood. You can read Two Lives Gertrude And Alice PDF direct on your mobile phones or PC. She is a leading figure in the recent movement to accord Stein the status of a major modernist master and to read her work with sympathetic, rather than hostile, incomprehension. Praise For Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice… Listed as #5 on the Editors' top 10 list in Biography and #4 in Gay & Lesbian for 2007 by amazon.com Named one of the 100 Notable Book of 2007 by The New York Times Book Review Ouch! This is the question Malcolm starts with in her attempt to get a foothold in the much-chronicled, much more hinted and insinuated life of Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B Toklas. But at a certain point, the way Stein’s novels veer into explorations of the very meaning … Please don’t. Malcolm has done a wonderful job piecing together the evidence to form the narrative of Stein and Toklas' lives. Services . She had none of the funny embarrassments Anglo-Saxons have about flesh. Hummm.... Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, were fascinating people in so many arenas. Evidently Toklas was really jealous of her, too, because some men were interested in her. And all that Southern business. Its been printed in an extremely straightforward way in fact it is She banished doubt from Stein’s artist’s consciousness, as she would later banish the unworthy from Stein’s salon. (Dr. Sophie Rosenbaum MD) Read Two Lives Gertrude And Alice PDF on our digital library. . “The funny thing about this short novel is that she completely forgot about it for many years,” Stein writes in Toklas’s voice, and goes on: She remembered herself beginning a little later writing the Three Lives but this first piece of writing was completely forgotten, she had never mentioned it to me, even when I first knew her. Less thoroughly reported than her other books about the lives and work of writers and other sundry people like psychoanalysts and scholars and murdering murderers, this one is more a piece of extended literary criticism with some minor bits of extra-textual research. “She feels the heat today.” “From that time on,” Dodge writes, “ Alice began to separate Gertrude and me—poco-poco.” Ten years later Man Ray took a famous photograph of Stein and Toklas at 27 rue de Fleurus. Two Lives is Janet Malcolm's stunning portrait of a legendary couple: Gertrude Stein, the modernist master, and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'. A photograph of him with Stein at Bilignin shows him to be a heavyset man with a mustache and glossy dark hair. Oh, and having read The Book of Salt that was tangentially about them, I was interested. “But he didn’t continue to interest me. Malcolm's book is deep and delightful. The word “lesbian” was never publicly uttered by either of them about their relationship—as it was the custom of the day not to utter it. But Stein and Toklas never mentioned it in anything they wrote about their wartime experiences. His appetite for research into Stein’s life is almost unappeasable. EWJPMNT94W3D « Book » Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice TWO LIVES: GERTRUDE AND ALICE To download Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice eBook, make sure you refer to the web link below and save the document or gain access to additional information which might be related to TWO LIVES: GERTRUDE AND ALICE book. But the great brilliance of Malcolm is that she writes sympathetically about the genius, Stein, and her cohort, lover, best friend, mate and savior, Alice B. Toklas. Instead the book becomes a loving meditation on the nature of how we remember other people. But it was close to the Beinecke and it was cheap. Malcolm describes her as a sexy, happy, self-proclaimed genius who naturally attracts followers. I returned this to the library before I could properly quote from the way Malcolm sort of unravels, against her will, especially in her reading of Making of the Americans. Burns has all the impulses of a biographer, though he lacks one crucial biographer’s trait: the arrogant desire to impose a narrative on the stray bits and pieces of a life that wash up on the shores of biographical research. For more than two decades, Dydo has been reading printed texts against manuscripts and finding significant errors. You do it tonight! "Two Lives" is also a work of literary criticism. I telephoned one of the authors, and this led to a series of meetings with Burns, Dydo, and another Stein scholar, William Rice, at Burns’s apartment on East Tenth Street in Manhattan. Although this is a very well-written book, I found it dry. it was writtern very flawlessly and beneficial. Janet Malcolm focuses here on Gertrude Stein's and Alice B. Toklas’s time in France during the Nazi occupation; a period in their lives that begs the question how did two elderly Jewish lesbians evade the Nazis? Start by marking “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Burns is a burly, affable, and loquacious man in his early sixties, who entered the Stein world when he was an undergraduate at Brooklyn College and took a course on American literature which Dydo was teaching there. She wore some covering of corduroy or velvet and her crinkly hair was brushed back arid twisted up high behind her jolly, intelligent face. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share . She even spoke badly of Toklas. She relates that when Alice Toklas—who had known nothing about the Stein-Bookstaver affair—read the “completely forgotten” novel. The book never really answers the question with which it begins. When she got up she frankly used to pull her clothes off from where they stuck to her great legs. And yet by the end of this small book I did feel enlightened and hopeful and closer to the human-ness of these two women. She destroyed—or made Gertrude destroy—May’s letters, which had served as the basis for the early novel. Paperback. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" It closer to a graduate thesis than a book. Oh, and having read The Book of Salt that was tangentially about them, I was interested. Janet Malcolm is insightful and excellent in her analysis not just of the lives of these two, but also their writing, and the scholars who have spent decades studying them. “This process also does away with all the hierarchical trappings of grammar and with the distinction between important and unimportant words. Not a bad thing. Stein does not identify the work, but we assume it is Q.E.D. Rate this 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5 This resource is available electronically from the following locations. Paperback. There is no air conditioning. $25.00 . Where I expected Holocaust literature. Check out their moving, informative, and timely piece, “New York City Has a Jail Problem". It may be true she has no 'intuition' towards Stein (something Malcolm loves to admit, endlessly comparing herself - negatively - to Ulla Dydo, I think she even sets up a metaphor somewhere of Dydo as the foodie of Stein criticism and Malcolm as the eater of hamburgers and french fries, I wish she'd have said 'hamburger helper' instead, but anyways) what this book taught me or reminded me is that resistance and reluctance and even dis-inclination remain underrated as reading positions, who cares if in Malcolm's book (literally) the following quotes (dug up from an email) aren't intended as praise? In a paper published in 1985 in the Chicago Review entitled “Stanzas in Meditation: The Other Autobiography,” Dydo spells out the connection. It was informative and entertaining. Toklas remains the dour ugly crone to Stein's handsome playful princess. Stein’s self-admiration and self-assurance needed to be fed, and Toklas appeared just in time to give them the nourishment Leo had withheld. Somewhere, buried in some box of books of mine, is Stein's magnum opus. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, were fascinating people in so many arenas. But what did they see in each other? “How do you imagine the scene?” I asked Dydo. But today I know that at least one of the people who came to see Stein and Toklas at Culoz was riot a good guy—indeed was one of the very worst guys, convicted of collaboration after the war and sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor. Also: super short, and really nicely designed. Published New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press 2007. It may be true she has no 'intuition' towards Stein (something Malcolm loves to admit, endlessly comparing herself - negatively - to Ulla Dydo, I think she even sets up a metaphor somewhere of Dydo as the foodie of Stein criticism and Malcolm as the eater of hamburgers and french fries, I wish she'd have said 'hamburger helper. Please don’t, pussy.”. Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography, criticism, and investigative journalism. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm begins with this question: How did two elderly Jewish lesbians survive the Nazis? He was Bernard Faÿ, a French university professor and writer, a gay man in his late forties, who came from a wealthy Royalist Catholic family, and whose right-wing connections led to his appointment in 1940 to head the Bibliothèque Nationale (replacing a Jew). Stein hides as much as she admits (in inscrutable prose) and the truth of who she and Toklas were remains obscure, with Malcolm particularly interested in learning of their sense of identity as Jews. Buy Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Malcolm, Janet (ISBN: 9780300143102) from Amazon's Book Store. To see what your friends thought of this book, literary gossip types, Francophile Americans, those puzzled by Gertrude Stein's actual writing. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/03/new-york-city-has-a-jail-problem, This is an excellent report to #FightOnlineAbuseNow from @PENAmerica - it has great practical recommendations for social media companies to take on board - changes that will help everyone everywhere who uses social media, not just limited to a US reality. “It take a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing,” Stein cheerfully reports in Everybody‘s Autobiography. Initially, like others, I held these ladies in high esteem. Another interesting thing is that even though they were both Jewish, they rarely admitted it or talked about it and were even friends of a Nazi sympathizer/collaborator who was later sent to prison. You don’t understand, they both said, it is so flattering to have a pupil who does it without understanding it,” and “He looks like a modern and he smells of the museums”). Stein was not alone, of course, in her admiration for Pétain, the hero of Verdun. The book never really answers the question with which it begins. I really enjoyed this book, read it in one day. indeed this perspective on language--on the bleak hope that language has of breaking through to some sort of truth--is what drives much of Stein's writing. Dydo, for her part, has produced A Gertrude Stein Reader, numerous papers on Stein published in scholarly journals, and a monumental critical study, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923–1934. Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. I am pleased to explain how this They continued to defend him. Don’t, please don’t. “Tate interested me when I started,” Dydo said at one of our meetings. This was much better than I expected but it's not for everyone. I would recommend reading biographies of the two ladies and their two most famous works (autobiography of toklas, toklas cookbook) before reading this book in order to get more out of it. Really well done. Gertrude was lovable, and loved Alice because she took care of her? Part of his job as head of the Bibliotheque, he writes, was to act as adviser to Marshal Pétain, and once a month he traveled from Paris to Vichy to confer with the old man. He continues: The colorless alcohol felt good on my tongue and it was still in my mouth when heard someone speaking to Miss Stein as I had never heard one person speak to another; never, anywhere, ever. Toklas, who lived until 1967, was similarly silent on the subject. The revisions make no sense and are clear disimprovements. Her dissertation was on Allen Tate. This is purely an academic work, and if you're not familiar with Stein's writing, then you will be at a loss. It is thought to be his revenge for Stein’s putting him down in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (“Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson are very funny on the subject of Hemingway. I've long been fascinated with the idea of Gertrude Stein: that anyone would bother to compose a massive largely unread and unreadable novel (Making of the Americans). Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. In 2019, does Malcolm Gladwell even need an introduction? I've long been fascinated with the idea of Gertrude Stein: that anyone would bother to compose a massive largely unread and unreadable novel (Making of the Americans). “What is difficult to understand, however, is how Stein continued with the project once edicts against Jews were issued and deportations begun,” Burns and Dydo write, adding. Malcolm explores how our understanding of even those we love most, and know best, is distorted by the limitations of language itse. Why had Stein subverted her work in this way? I also have to say I don't really care much for the style of the author of this book. Or was he telling the truth, and Stein and Toklas kept silent because they couldn’t bring themselves to admit to the world that they had been mixed up with a collaborator? NEW, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcolm, "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Bums had previously edited a two-volume collection of the letters between Stein and Carl Van Vechten (Van Vechten was the friend whose slavish devotion to Stein practically matched Toklas’s in his letters he called her Baby Woojums—he was Papa Woojums and Toklas was Mama Woojums), a book of Alice Toklas’s letters called Staying on Alone , and an illustrated hook of Stein’s writings on Picasso. The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. Dydo is a slender, elegant woman in her early eighties, who speaks with a European accent and has a tart manner that struggles with, and is defeated by, a deep underlying soft-heartedness. . If you know nothing about Stein and Toklas, it's a very fine place to start. We’d love your help. The rooms are not much more than monks’ cells. ‘We accept the idea of sadomasochism. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. As I finished the book, and was turning through the last pages, I saw one final note on the text that I had missed. Alas, it's dissuaded me from trying to read Gertrude Stein. What Hemingway wrote about Stein and Toklas in The Moveable Feast has been regarded with skepticism. What she understood about Faÿ and how she saw the situation remains a troublesome puzzle. Because it wasn't crucial to the investigation of the book? Recent Stein events and books include: I was really enjoying this when I started: I was hungover, I wanted to learn about Stein, and Malcolm can write sentences that sometimes rise above (or fall below, either way) the usual New York journalism. eBook, Electronic resource, Book. Her painstaking work of comparison of manuscript and printed text was being done at the Beinecke Library at Yale, where most of Stein’s manuscripts repose. Dydo’s teaching of Stein, Burns said, was his first encounter with Stein’s “real,” or experimental, writing—as opposed to her accessible “audience” writing—and the beginning of the serious interest in Stein which became his life’s work. But reading Tw. They both agreed that they have a weakness for Hemingway because he is such a good pupil. I actually have study and i am sure that i am going to gonna read through once more yet again in the future. There are sinks and narrow beds. Buy the selected items together. The excerpts in this book were enough for me. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm English | August 15th, 2014 | ISBN: 0522854362, 0300143109 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1.65 MB Dydo would make periodic trips to New Haven and stay with a friend, but that summer there was no room at the friend’s house, and Dydo had to make do with Spartan accommodations at a place called the Graduate Club. Malcolm, Janet. Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice: Amazon.co.uk: Malcolm, Janet: 9780300143102: Books It’s a well-written, if not always well-structured, book, and there are numerous witty, striking passages, but somehow this didn’t quite come together for me, perhaps because of Malcolm’s own seeming lack of engagement with/attachment to Stein and Toklas, either on a personal or critical level. I loved the story of how Stein defaced her poem. Defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. All rights reserved. . A page earlier, Dydo and Burns write of Faÿ’s escape from a prison hospital, on September 30, 1951, “with the help of friends.” One of these friends, they write, was Alice Toklas: “By means of the sale of one or more works on paper by Picasso, Toklas helped to finance the escape.” I looked for the source of this arresting information, but there was none—neither in the text nor in a footnote. The Resource Two lives : Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcolm Two lives : Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcolm I understood much more about the persona each created for the public--that it was a persona. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. The division of household labor between the two women, with one doing everything and the other nothing, was another precondition for the flowering of Stein’s genius. and then takes us on her journey of investigative journalism that leads her, and us, to ever more unexpected places. "Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklas's legendary 40-year partnership with the brilliant modernist Gertrude Stein in Two Lives, clearing up a few mysteries along the way—including how two Jewish women were able to survive World War II in their provincial French château with the help of a Vichy collaborator. She became, as she put it, “paranoid about the name May.” That paranoia appears to be the key to the revisions of the text of Stanzas. Malcolm explores how our understanding of even those we love most, and know best, is distorted by the limitations of language itself. So Toklas made Gertrude stop associating with him. Great little bio and appreciation of Gertrude and Alice's life together. Mabel Dodge’s four-volume autobiography intimate Memories, begun in 1924 (after her fourth marriage, when she became Mabel Dodge Luhan), gives a rare glimpse of Stein at her desk during the long visit she and Toklas made to the Villa Curonia in 1912. In nothing she wrote—including letters trying to get help for Faÿ in prison—did Toklas acknowledge Faÿ’s wartime protection. It is generally agreed that without Alice Toklas, Stein might not have had the will to go on writing what for many years almost no one had any interest in reading. Stein remains a significant, even legendary literary figure associated with the rise of modernism in art and literature. As I finished the book, and was turni. The year before Gertrude had lived in Fiesole—and she trudged down one bill and across town and up another to see us . Malcolm and her Greek chorus of Stein scholars and the hunt for tidbits of Toklas locked away, or maybe not, in the head of a fifth man offstage. Dydo cherishes the anarchy of Stein’s language. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat. Initially, like others, I held these ladies in high esteem. Rice, a tall, thin man in his seventies, with a sad and very kind face, is primarily a painter and actor, and therefore has a slightly different status in the trio. Yale University Press. He is content to leave the bits and pieces as they are, and offer them in the footnotes and introductions and appendixes of the collections of letters he gathers. Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism. Yale University Press. Reading Malcolm, however, convinces me there's more to the novel (and the novelist) than I perhaps assumed. Boston University Libraries. But in the light of what pussy did to Stein’s poem Hemingway’s account no longer seems so suspect. Before writing the dissertation that was to become the Stein–Van Vechten volumes, Burns taught at the Charles Evans Hughes High School in Chelsea. “The force with which these words are crossed out. Two lives: Gertrude and Alice. Stein learned early on that she was not creative, meaning that she could not create characters or conversations for the literature she sought to write, so instead she collected people in order to write about them. For example, in the book they quote Hemingway as having written, "She used to talk to me about homosexuality and how it was fine in and for women and no good in men and I used to listen and learn and I always wanted to fuck her and she knew it." |, I agree to receive email from PEN America. Janet Malcolm queries how two elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis, pursuing the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France We do not know to what extent she continued to rely on Faÿ’s judgment and what she understood of his political activities, his active anti-Semitism, his hatred of Bolshevism, his collaboration . By Elodie Barnes | On November 13, 2020 | Comments (2) Gertrude Stein and Alice B. 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