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I am only one, only one, only one.

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Shaun Usher
Feb 03, 2021
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Arthur C. Fifield to Gertrude Stein. From Letters of Note (2013).

Celebrated author and poet Gertrude Stein had an approach to writing that divided audiences, the unimpressed of whom found her often repetitious style—“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” being a classic example—simply impenetrable and nonsensical. For others, it was, and remains, a breath…

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