November 6th, 2011 / 2:47 pm
 Craft Notes & I Like __ A Lot

A ham is proud of cocoanut.

A CLOTH.

Enough cloth is plenty and more, more is almost enough for that and besides if there is no more spreading is there plenty of room for it. Any occasion shows the best way.

….

A TIME TO EAT.

A pleasant simple habitual and tyrannical and authorised and educated and resumed and articulate separation. This is not tardy.

….

APPLE.

Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, cold cream, best shake, potato, potato and no no gold work with pet, a green seen is called bake and change sweet is bready, a little piece a little piece please.
A little piece please. Cane again to the presupposed and ready eucalyptus tree, count out sherry and ripe plates and little corners of a kind of ham. This is use.

[from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein]



[from the album More Songs About Buildings and Food]

BLAIN Cloth chewed to frequent raggedness by a boy. Lethal to birds. When blanketed over the house, the sky will be swept of objects.

CARL Name applied to food built from textiles, sticks, and rags. Implements used to aid ingestion are termed, respectively, the lens, the dial, the knob.

CHOKE POWDER Rocks and granules derived from the neck or shoulder of a member. If the mouth harness is tightened, the powder is issued in the saliva and comes to rim the teeth or coat the thong. For each member of a society, there exists a vial of powder. It is the pure form of this member, to be saved first. When the member is collapsing or rescinding, the powder may be retrieved by gripping the member’s neck tightly and driving the knee into its throat.

[from The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus]

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20 Comments

  1. November 6th, 2011 / 3:09 pm lorian long—

      this post is like the best trail mix cookie i ever did eat

  2. November 6th, 2011 / 3:14 pm Brooks Sterritt—

      YUM

  3. November 6th, 2011 / 3:41 pm Blake Butler—

      move a muscle move a muscle move a muscle

  4. November 6th, 2011 / 4:48 pm Donna, esq.—

      There is no pear there.

  5. November 6th, 2011 / 6:37 pm Ricky—

      Did Gertrude Stein misspell ‘coconut’? Cool!

  6. November 7th, 2011 / 12:21 am reynard—
  7. November 7th, 2011 / 1:32 am mimi—

      how did you find that?

  8. November 7th, 2011 / 2:02 am reynard—

      prayed to saint google while chanting ‘if you say something long enough and hard enough, it will become true’

  9. November 7th, 2011 / 2:07 am Brooks Sterritt—

      “you’re not crazy, just creative!”

  10. November 7th, 2011 / 2:11 am Brooks Sterritt—

      also yes: “every manifestation is simply a mist riding on but one strata of a far more complex universe”

  11. November 7th, 2011 / 2:36 am mimi—

      lol – i saw that

  12. November 7th, 2011 / 2:40 am deadgod—

      According to quantum theory, “one strata” is zero stratums, four yums are too ya, and the object that looses its meaning is one endowment staring at you.

  13. November 7th, 2011 / 3:07 am NLY—

      But you can rest easy knowing your atoms are made of quirks. Everything on some level is just Woody Allen mugging for the camera.

  14. November 7th, 2011 / 4:23 am deadgod—

      I rest easier knowing that I’ve never spent a virtual instant on the level where “[e]verything […] is just Woody Allen mugging for the camera.”

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  16. November 7th, 2011 / 4:47 am Brooks Sterritt—

      p.s. “looses?”

  17. November 7th, 2011 / 10:20 am mimi—

      i got up in the middle of the night and loosened my meaning – i slept much better after that

  18. November 7th, 2011 / 12:22 pm NLY—
  19. November 7th, 2011 / 6:46 pm deadgod—

      ha ha ha are you fisting that milkshake at me mac

  20. November 7th, 2011 / 6:47 pm deadgod—

      Make it sinew!