Just completed a short essay grappled steps in the method-making of writing focusing on Stein... "Gertrude Stein wrote writing about writing … ‘Sentences make one sigh,’ she said. ‘A sentence says you know what I mean’. ‘I would use a sentence if I could’. ‘A sentence says you know what I mean. A sentence that is simple is a cross with a meaning’. A sentence says you know what I mean, Stein pushes. ‘Sentences can be made wonderful, one at a time’.Still … they make her sigh. To Alice ... ‘I would use a sentence if I could’.(Because) … ‘a sentence says you know what I mean’.
This method making of written meaning is the sighing signing root making my own writing, my mary-festo...This is a manifesto of sorts, a manifesto that’s aim is to hold out against the blankness of language through a subverting meaning through the structuring and writing of language."
this site started as a hold all for recordings and excerpts of Gertrude Stein texts, specifically dealing with the sound in her language. It was also built to hold my own experimental works built to Stein's specifications for a sounded-language. It is increasingly becoming a place for me to talk to myself re my own thoughts and understandings about her work and the places it indicates and the difficulties of writing/creating from such a precipice. I welcome comments and discussion. A discussion space is also set up here
