Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1914 (Heft 45))

did she drag that in about music ? Soon everybody will be “on,” and then it will be like the flower
in the Tennyson poem. The big flower just beyond our reach is so beautiful, but the seed blows
over the wall and lo! everybody has the flower, and despises it. Not that Miss Stein would
ever be a weed—but you understand.
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Here is Gertrude’s play foreword:
“Marsden Hartley.
“A cook. A cook can see. Pointedly in uniform, exertion in a medium. A cook can see.
“Clark which is awful, dark which is shameful, dark and order.
“A pin is a plump point and pecking and combined and more much more is in fine.
“ Rats is, rats is oaken, robber. Height, age, miles, plaster, peddle, more order.
“Bake, a barn has cause and more late oak-cake specially.
“Spend rubber, holder and coal, high, careful, in a pointed collar. A hideous southwest
is always a climb in aged seldom succeeded flavoring untimely, necessity white, hour in a blaze.
“Break, sky blue light, obliquely, in a cut carpet, in the pack. A sound.
“Marsden Hartley.
“No noon back. No noon settler, no sun in the slant and carpet utterly surrounded.
“No pressed plaster. None.
“No pressing plan and pan cake. Not related exactly. Not related.
“Matter in the centre of single sand and slide in the hut.
“No account of gibberish. No sky lark utterly.
“Perfect lemon and cutting a central black. Not such clouding. A sugar, a lame sugar,
certainly. No sobriety no silver ash tray.
“A coexistence with hard suckling and spoons, and spoons. A coexistence with orange
supper. A last mending. A begging. Should the assault be exterminated, should it.
“Marsden Hartley.
“A sound is in the best society. It hums and moves, it throws the hat in no way away
and in no way particularly at paving. The meanness is a selection of parts and all of that is
no more a handkerchief merely and large.
“Points.
“The exchange which is fanciful and righteous and mingled is in the author mostly in
the piece.
“Hunger is not hurry and a silence and no more than ever, it is not so exactly and the
word used is there.
“The soon estate and established alternately has bright soldiers and peaceable in the
rest of the stretch.
“Point, face, canvas, toy, struck off, sense or, weigh coach, soon beak on, so suck in and
an iron.
“Shut the chamber in the door, so well and so weak and so buttered. Shut the chest
out, do not shut it in.
“A sun in shine, and a so and a so helped angle is the same as the whole right.
“The wedding.
“It is not for nothing that the row placed quantity without grinding. Furnishing is
something, individual is pointed. Beetles, only aged sounds are hot, a can in ease and a sponge
full a can in case and a wax well come, a can, a single hole, a wild suggesting wood, a half carpet
and a pillow, a pillow increasing, a shirt in a cloud, a dirty distress, a thing grey, a thing thin,
a long shout, a wonder, an over piece of cool oil, a sugar can, a shut open accident, a result in
a feat, a copper, any copper. A cape coat, in bold shutters, in bold shutters shutting and not
changing shutters not changing climaxes and peelings and hold over the switch, the binding of
a pet and a revolver, the chosen loan, the owned cake in pieces, the way to swim.”
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A more delicious accompaniment to the pictures cannot be imagined. Is it not wonderful
the way in which Gertrude responds to every one of Hartley’s moods ? Mr. Stieglitz really should

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