Stein

What I like most about Gertrude Stein is her voice, even in writing about grammar, a subject most dull in ordinary conversation, stein makes it interesting, she makes it poetic. Stein says that when she first began writing, she felt that writing should go on. It should not merely pause or stop due to bad grammar points or semi-colons. I like the metaphoric twist on grammer and literary composition, how she compares a comma to holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes.she speaks of punction in prose, but I feel that as Stein talks about punctuation, she speaks in prose. I found no powerful ending lesson from her piece this week, but I did find interest. I may not go out , cross the street, and dot my semi-colons, but i sure do appreciate the way stein made me experience an " I remember poem" in the study of grammar. Stein starts almost every change in topic with " I remember when" its as if stein doesnt just study language she experiences it. I think we can all learn a thing or two from such an approach.