If I told him. If I told him. If I told him, dictator and despot, if I told him. Him if I told. What would happen if I told him. Would he run? Would he run if I told him? Would he stay if he stayed if I told him if he stayed would I tell him would he wouldn’t he or would he ever? Cacophony is cacophonous. Is Gertrude Stein is she cacophonous is she if she were to be cacophonous would I listen if she were? Would he? Would he listen to me if I were cacophonous if his brains were tangled from the sounds of repetition would he listen? Would he plug his ears or would he listen? Would anyone listen if we told them would they?

Would people listen to Gertrude if she followed the rules? Would they listen if she did? Is breaking the rules making the rules? Simple and elegant. Simple is elegant and clean is clear as clear is clean and we are all together to see how they run see how the run she how they fly.

I could not hear Gertrude’s voice in my head until now. Until I heard those videos I hadn’t heard it. But something about the way she breaks all the rules the English language puts out makes me love her writing. She basically put a big “F**K YOU!” in the face of anyone who is a grammar nitpicker, English lover, and technicality-obsessed intellectual. Gertrude Stein’s writing is, in a way, playful and fun– a reminder that rules should be broken. Obviously, who wouldn’t love that idea?