Under the gaze of Ulysses –

Species, words and other landscapes

a TRAVEL NOTEBOOK by Manuel Valente Alves

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Intentionalities

“Gertrud Stein, in her work had always been possessed by the intelectual passion for exactitude in the description of inner and outer reality. She has produced a simplification by this concentration, and as a result the destruction of associational emotion in poetry and prose. She knows that beauty, music, decoration, the result of emotion should never be the cause, even events should not be the cause of emotion nor should they be the material of poetry and prose. They should consist of an exact reproduction of either and outer or an inner reality.” –– Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)

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