The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
A Literary Madhouse

A Literary Madhouse
WHAT Gertrude with terature9
reads work resemble the gbber
ngs paranoac the private wards Of aSms
deliberate ationaty, deliberate inantism However the
She excellent medical student brilliant psychologist
in her popular writings evidence of wit
wisdom.
yet nevertheless like literature
students padded n Mateawan.
Example: II the and the God bless the
moon and God bless and this you see remember me In this
way fifth bananas bought"
supposed description
Mat the painter
precisely supposed
make sense" in the normal meaning of the term.
The generation artists of which Gertrude Stein is the
figure arduousy literature
They believed that the instincts
ngs of the rational mind They believed in intuition
form Of learning and nowledg Therefore many Of them wrote
tced kind Of automatic writing where they would sit for
sbbng the random subconscios feelings Of their souls They
mystic irrationat spirits
order to create works of which would be expressions of the me
soul of man ETC. The result unfortunately most of them took done
in form anohe revealed their ascshingy
imbecile
Language and Meaning
THE literary insanity insanity
arises out Of false conception Of the nature of Of
function language.
leisure class which exists on the labor of Others which has no
function to perform in society except the clipping of investment
ills suffers perpeusly
DOM Their life them. Tasteless
meaning They seek sensations adventures
in order to give themselves feelings.
The process place with the artists
Literature also bored them They tried suck out Of it ensa
tons adventures.
destroyed
usnz words bored them They wished to use words
onal fashion They twisted grammar, syntax They
primitive emotions primitive art DEATH dreams
writings became the themes of their works
In Gertrude STEIN became hobby
vice She did not to communicate because essentially
was nothing to communicate She had responsibility her
inordnate cravings She became the prese cult
strange literary rites, with mystical secrets
Art and Private Income
IN light other
artists the private income
In order to pursue the kind of art in be the kind artist
Gertrude Stein it is society which
will permit have private wealthy parents
sound investments With this is basis write
You destroy language mutae
of the knowledge Nobody you in
time perhaps you nimidate
critics and win a kind of reputation
Gertrude Stein has the reputation She
America hyone years object
Of curious respect by book clubs societies. page
news for the newspapers
Which, me- proof enough money and
enough persistence madman sanity
Gertrude Stein gena
An idle Art
puT Mas refused to be impressed with her own opinion OF herself
They the work symptoms of the
decay of capitalist culture They complete
annhae all relations between society
in which he lives They the orgy
spiritual abandon that marks the life of the whole
What else her resemble midnight
ockbroker throwing penthouse
fnds2 Would be possible to either symptoms
degeneration except society
Idle art just there idle rich? nothing
insanity DESIRES cultivate strange
ndugences The literary docy of Gertrude Stein only reflects
the system capitalist part of the
Of doom that written everywhere
bourgeois society.
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