Wednesday, September 17, 2008

8-word poem: THE GERTRUDE STEIN STORY

She could have
Kicked
Ernest Hemingway's
Sorry ass.

Labels:

2 Comments:

Blogger MsAPhillips said...

Hemingway biographer Jeffery Meyers makes the point that Hemingway saw in Stein much of his mother - they were both the same age, both physically large women, both frustrated artists, and both competed, and lost, to some extent to Hemingway. "Most significantly, Hemingway tried to work out with Gertrude some of the strong Oedipal feelings he had for Grace. 'I always wanted to sleep with her and she knew it and it was a healthy feeling and made more sense than some of the talk.' Such forbidden desires could be safely expressed because he knew he could not actually sleep with a lesbian any more than he could sleep with his mother."

http://www.lostgeneration.com/hemfaq.htm#stein

11:16 AM  
Blogger Pearl said...

8-words interesting and MsPhillips addition enlightening too.

4:31 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home