Gertrude Stein, n.All

Gertrude Stein is the mama of dada.

Gertrude Stein is an immense priestess of nonsense who expounds her text in nonsense syllables.

Gertrude Stein is an old covered wagon.

Gertrude Stein is a past master in making nothing happen very slowly.

Gertrude Stein is a writer whose prose is a cold, black suet-pudding, a cold suet-roll of fabulously reptilian length which, if cut at any point, reveals the same heavy, sticky, opaque mass all through, and all along.

Gertrude Stein is, in her last days, reminiscent of a spoiled pear.