"A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not." (on Ezra Pound) - Gertrude Stein

The souls of people do not interest him, that is to say for him the reality of life is in the head, the face and the body and this is for him so important, so persistent, so complete that it is not at all necessary to think of any other thing and the soul is another thing.

Alice Toklas' father had almost once had an oil well they dug and dug but naturally the oil did not gush, naturally not these things never do happen to any one one knows, if it could happen to them you would not be very likely to know them most naturally not.

I am I because my little dog knows me. That does not prove anything about [me] it only proves something about the dog.