tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post4497958871827168848..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Stein and A Very Nice DayCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-87224681815915114412010-01-18T22:38:52.407-08:002010-01-18T22:38:52.407-08:00Richard Bridgman was one of the least attractive p...Richard Bridgman was one of the least attractive persons I ever interviewed. He seemed not the slightest bit interested in Stein's work or context. He read through the entire oeuvre, and wrote his detailed and not terribly enlightening book, apparently out of a sense of duty. I detected no sense of humor in the man at all.<br /><br />I just read D.H. Lawrence's <i>Twilight in Italy</i> and was surprised at the many passages that seemed greatly influenced by a reading of Stein -- amazing, since he wrote that book before Geography and Plays had appeared. Something in the air, perhaps: but you'd swear he'd read Three Lives, if nothing else.Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-33429119176497670662010-01-13T10:56:01.228-08:002010-01-13T10:56:01.228-08:00Stein had a hand in inventing minimal, imagistic ...Stein had a hand in inventing minimal, imagistic writing, eh?<br /><br />More reasons to dislike her. Papa Hem. did better with like Steven Crane as a model (quite capable with ..images as well), though not of the parisian salon sort. Pound too probably cribbed quite a bit from Stein's salon. <br /><br />Sort of jesting, but I find her little color splotches dull for the most part. <br /><br />Mr Wiki's page on Gertrude has an interesting bon mot: Stein and Alice B Toeclips, both jewish, were apparently close to some vichy boys, and seem to have been exempted from the nazi round-up, and felt no need to run. Even after the war, and after Le Mort du Stein, Alice contributed some shekels to attempt to free a few of her former vichy pals...Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.com