A CARAFE THAT IS A BLIND GLASS
(Stein 1)
not all color unordered
cousin hurt, nothing in a
difference and not glass
resembling this is a pointing arrangement
a strange kind to
an ordinary in spreading a not
single in system and
the spectacle
GLAZED GLITTER
(Stein 2)
No the come and a an convincing use there
is charming will sometime and that washing
search originally of breath can and is mercy
in clean in that giving chosen be Japanese perhaps
and polishing that in very is weakens and if
be and is has is hour is sinecure not sometime
no it there any yesterday.
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There is programme some red change showed is
is there change breakages. But perhaps that no what is.
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interpretation hope and that gratitude is borrowing
is there medicine and an obligation chosen, no?
It a that surely unwelcome natural certainly
color is nickel, no, is there certainly.
The spitting charming rid
A SUBSTANCE IN A CUSHION
(Stein 3)
There is gratitude fine to season there has and feather not disgrace a returning and roundness, a red likely not preparation, not men there is a kind to come to little shows refusing a white extreme dearer what is tassel and no any violent in white out a clean be to things the color there it resolved sight band prepared.
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A dirt interest in bed and like white if it leaves.
The swan is more there even than is place The cotton of uses appearance and extreme oyster reckless thing The and getting being connect pleasure
Callous.
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A BOX
(Stein 4)
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A PIECE OF COFFEE
(Stein 5)
there and is a fainting is the to that way not coal not quite the furniture not of sight color mixture more than use a clean. Supposing resemblance is a perfect. The and is cleaning slighter to concentrating certain to a nicely use is for has scattering a standing in it’s single when not in the negative.
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The there never is.
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The stationing and way same of time was cheap. It’s the any of reason image supposing.
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DIRT AND NOT COPPER
(Stein 6)
O table shape
more color see
mercy empty and a darker
dirt so strength even not harder
cover a place makes spread and
relaxation and the fuller makes.
It makes copper
melody heavy
and to
They make and
It’s not there
NOTHING ELEGANT
(Stein 7)
upright inside red
It the there then is
is is change
gate charm
it and if places.
A let rose earnest
is in is single is
doubtful surrounding
if and there a charm
something certainly.
MILDRED'S UMBRELLA
(Stein 8)
a curve and no a cause enough established small slender and a clash of ribbon this loss extra loss extra and loud sign cunning cause a loud great cause.
A means a sac, wagon sac extra and no color restitution, a grey.
A METHOD OF A CLOAK
(Stein 9)
attractive clock.
A courage is a to adventure
a which a silver has a straight
climb which makes system this
to resignation success which
desperate exchange
all a black single
has a line cane and
an all feeling and.
A RED STAMP
(Stein 10)
extreme has if this
not catalogue are this necessary dirt
dust at lilies do
they no they is they if and all,
grace if a not need, white
is noise
they and a distance
dusty if necessary
they that exhaust will even and
surface, if it lilies.
A BOX
(Stein 11)
That is for color wealthy to not why taken is open to be and choice shows and a make color winged and necessary there. Table the which washed is stopped one than is established not the there is an the to cigarettes to is to sick pieces. The to than some to is three increases.
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A reason means what is the and is example. Holes or cigarettes that box different indicate have parts.
Winged there to make an other in. The red brown same some is is then. The in neatly off when cloister is replaced that pieces long any the why custom doubling that.
Of a substance is to white box. Length be different brighter to have it be. A brown which can be.
Why is to corners more than yellow paper. Any is four, is sometimes are makes outward more there in winter silver result have table have last cover up. Different shows brighter do that. The more is of to and three to large that hardly in if pounded is made and left dusty is to be is as it to grey one paper length shown to increase.
A PLATE
(Stein 12)
of it disease nothing
of as and game of a splendid dinner
to in is and the that in incline a not haste
order is the
change cut a sad
Cut only enable of colored plan filling collect.
The green for more and freely the little enough
that strangely and
Show and address card
so a way it strung
if party the line.
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A coffee cooling the buying occasion nothing evening has addressed more by or splendid coming sad in a cake cut that round. Not is hearty is more than that.
Plates and not shows shown protect things that to gather blue the only plate centre only losing stone of not precocious than a lamp or white starting not other out.
A SELTZER BOTTLE
(Stein 13)
Of which other the mean this suppose, suppose to what necessary you neglect, middle is settlement and even discolor extract present to this even is certain sufficient if it dresses a silver suppose constant selected it. August more iswhat was manifold lead more of it was any if suppose and it was. The suppose in kindly consequence any very long and in black and color no in very rest makes it. Supposing with this was elegant particles message of no, there in mixed and more and any time is of it made be suppose so use you is permitted even summer necessary handling actual a certainly state a of than ways many supposing certainly not suppose in altogether and elegant could is the border suppose and this being substituted winter is a needed cracking is occasional is of a needle slender no incident even assured final this neglect all.
This melodiously settlement if this is around
A LONG DRESS
(Stein 14)
Serenes are long. What there the every it are red.
What it is this, it makes crackle green only? A bow current line color black, a presents distinguishes current, is line wind and only just a scarlet it is not a machinery. What and is and yellow waist what and that line length what makes is is the is in place current white dark necessary is a pink.
Were it dark. Is the distinguishing place that the blue is at.
A RED HAT
(Stein 15)
Is that the A of it because there are any if ordinarily is that grey is very red there it arguments not place stretched dark but has monstrous grey. Grey so in it there quite no monstrous any so even necessary it is out in any dark a dark not much so and place better red.
Is is everything is for that?
A BLUE COAT
(Stein 16)
is away the width
used coat
more any is away
and that guided blue
that than particular
and shadow
a for color guided
not guided even length
not is guided that
A PIANO
(Stein 17)
the a button not place awkwardly is color
not lifts the and is not there color spread
in open acted in as restraint up the if not
it none can is not no is there shuts is a speed
no and custom even is is standing held
it there it is dirt is selection way of waving
strong if in if awkwardly by there no such
dark that spread same any.
This and scarcely standing then the pin not
the careless centre the any holder That is the
scent awkward is and if a color.
If is color an if, the all.
A CHAIR
(Stein 18)
Is a measurement complexion means not action. A chance to which so.
To and else it has actual and that than it than has in that like in darkness more shadows. Severest custody accident artificial and wise suitable that there the it sofa is necessary.
A practical binding all what and diminishing widow just that animosity necessary, learning, rubbing that and is really the same ever between have means addresses more and much barn that and housed establishment nothing an always betrayal it is. Side not without the more suitable shine. This is that circular A. A treat is bend than patient more suitable the spectacle same there and spectacle accents it when actually stubborn sudden aching. If an arrangement has been chosen, the regular there is a place it is that signs resemblance staring.
If ended bedding necessary: there it spectacles preserved garments easily practice, suitable at blaming anything, particularly easily direction; not a seat.
Actually what the not is wearing certainly more dirty than is veiled and main protection.
A shadows is most slender accentuation necessarily a more than well not authorised arrangement no ordinarily fact. It there and why has why even and any longer a special stage even nothing more showing a bloom.
Pick and complaining and is whole. A barn else aching necessary practiced it is not.
Practice not very many more times than more so.
Hope more.
A FRIGHTFUL RELEASE
(Stein 19)
Left not was and was the bit not a left.
A place. The over mismanaged shown a which of turned it only. A but was found not last piece but was like piece exchanged was not. The away bag very taken rests to be time.
A PURSE
(Stein 20)
is chain
long misplaced
a not straw
that open color never
was missing was showed it
it was purse and the had not
the it seen was use that was
use not an it lit green all chain showed it that hardly was sai.d
A MOUNTED UMBRELLA
(Stein 21)
just the hang more
it is it about does was
not and so show handsome
was use what learn that it
it leaving no right is the way it
exchanges more for where it was
nothing there of it
it of do chance reason if making
use show what much come was in
seeing it it showed and nothing is a
lesson to and there ever that to shows
the that plenty there that there is no
it there and of would that there that
A CLOTH
(Stein 22)
no if plenty best almost is
cloth it more
Any there besides
Enough is is for and more plenty
occasion rooms the use for is spreading
there shows way enough that more and
MORE
(Stein 23)
There so that winningly kinds and un several so cloth reasons round oceans colored very as a enthusiastic reason in rid shining and are of that makes. The color of the no foliage regular grace is and little more same red oil piece.
Wondering snips is elegant white.
A NEW CUP AND SAUCER
(Stein 24)
the in clouded
is ribbon a hurting saucer
and the yellow
Enthusiastically bites
enthusiastically bud so
OBJECTS
(Stein 25)
than more
no one the sudden
alone and
If example
slender squeezing
centre together
long equals
it cuts all three and
the joint is filled
and makes
show within
kind of with
elbows her best side
The then
in the is
is two made within
so is the
two
by two?
EYE GLASSES
(Stein 26)
A saloon shaving
the is well placed
color of in centre
in an alley a
A CUTLET
(Stein 27)
Agitation manly is blind
an uttermost and.
CARELESS WATER
(Stein 28)
Of does is joint broken does orders supposing
No more more is in to does
are angels Japanese whole
does piece it shows.
Supposing does
cup counting.
Does more a it a that
change does choosing show water places orderly do that.
Shows the it mending and to famously does is that hair element that that culture show and that show that more. It’s a single to it that that does it are them plate broken and more and of say mended that balloon strength in ministering.
A PAPER
(Stein 29)
makes making
a paper and occasional
eyesight and
such show
courteous and likeness
occasion to stool
this a readiness no
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MAKINGWAY ENDNOTE
SOURCE TEXT: The first 29 entries in the “Objects” section of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons taken from Gertrude Stein: Writings, 1903 to 1932, Vol. 1.
METHOD:
1. I numbered each object from 1 to 29 in the order in which they appear in the source text. I deleted all punctuation marks.
2. Using the 3by3by3 Text Scrambler, developed and hosted by Robert Woerheide, I sent each numbered section through the scrambler the number of times given it’s assigned number (section 22, for instance, was scrambled 22 separate times, in each case using the previously scrambled text as the source text).
3. I transformed each of the final output texts into verse lines, or keeping their original prose paragraph form, depending. I might change word order and some affixes in the output lines and sometimes adding some “helping words” that do not appear in the output lines, sometimes changing tense or plural. I used Gary Lutz’s The Sentence Is a Lonely Place as a general guiding principle regarding , especially, issues of content words and functional words.
FORM: My only formal constraint was that of rhythm, which isn’t a form in and of itself.
New York: 25 August and 26 August 2010
For undeniably dear He,
With undiminishing love and admiration,
Towards the End of Summer, 2010
