Comments on: “Gertrude Stein with autism???????” https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:21:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Julie Brown https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17086 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:21:16 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17086 Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Gertrude Stein and autism. Even if she wasn’t autism (and maybe she was), could her writing still be autistic.

Valerie Paradiz talks about her in Elijah’s Cup, a book I really recommend.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

]]> By: JB https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17085 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:12:09 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17085 ‘picks up drum sticks’

]]> By: Ivan https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17084 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:17:32 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17084 boom boom boom boom boom boom bomb boom boom boom bomb bomb ka boom ka boom boom boom bomb bomb bum bomb boom bomb bum which I am sitting on when I should be (boom boom boom boom) studying calculus.

That’s what was going in my mind as I read this. No joke. I don’t know much at all about Gertrude Stein……..

Ivan

]]> By: Laura https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17083 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:42:27 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17083 Ticky box. ticky ticky ticky box. box. box. boxboxbox. tickybocks. bocks! Ticky! Bocks!

]]> By: Sherri https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17082 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:28:09 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17082 It reminded me more of her children’s book “The World is Round”, but probably because 1) I’ve read that fairly recently (to my children, who were surprisingly interested and chose it for bedtime night after night until finished) and 2) for the entirely superficial reason that the first part used the word “round” a lot.

Sherri

]]> By: laurentius-rex https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17081 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:20:14 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17081 diddlyidledoodle idle diddlyidle deedledum
diddlyidledoodly didle diddly idle day.

dum dee doodle idle dum diddly doodle idle
dum dee doodle idle diddly idle doodle dum

dum dee doodle idle dum diddly doodle idle
dum dee doodle idle diddly idle doodle dum

dum diddly dum dum, dum diddly doodle idle,
dum diddly dum dum, ditheri idle deedle idle

dum diddly dum dum, dum diddley doodle idle
diddlyidledeedle idle diddly idle deedle dum the day.

It’s an Irish reel known as the morning dew.

Now the Scots have puirt a beal and that is a whole new ball game :)

]]> By: Bev https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17080 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:15:51 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17080 Jason GoldenFleece OtherWorld Good Good. Jason GoldenFleece OtherWorld Good Good. Jason GoldenFleece OtherWorld Good Good
Good Good Good Good Good Good Good.

]]> By: J https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17079 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:50:43 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17079 The most famous thing Gertrude Stein did that your writing there resembles is “Tender Buttons”. Here is a link to where you can find it on the internet: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15396/15396-h/15396-h.htm

Don’t think you have any obligation to read it. I know you’re busy, and don’t want this mistaken for something else you have to do. If you want to read it, and find a good time, there it is.

]]> By: rr https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17078 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:31:26 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17078 Gosh, just this morning I was thinking of another line from Gertrude: “There is no there there”. She was refering to Oakland, CA. It got me to going “There is no *there* there, there is no there *there*….. there, there, everything’s going to be OK…. etc. :) I once did a fun and weird term paper combining Gertrude Stein, cubism, and something else, I forget what. That was 25 years ago already…

Here are some quotes from Stein. I found them on quotationspage.com. Hmmmm…

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
(That’s a good one for me!)

“I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.”

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/gertrude-stein-with-autism/#comment-17077 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:01 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=359#comment-17077 I don’t know a lot about her life (haven’t even read more than a little of her poetry), but if she wrote stuff of that nature I wouldn’t be overly shocked.

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