Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot

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This bot posts every 6 hours from Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein's 1914 prose poem now in the public domain.

Bot maintainer is an abstract expressionist painter who thinks of this work as "abstract poetry." It expands my brain to read it. I think it works well as a microblog.

Profile: Black & white photo of Gertrude Stein by Man Ray with "Tend Her Bot" written in purple
Cover: Original book title page "TENDER BUTTONS Objects Food Rooms"

Operated byR Middleton, he/him
Contact athttps://mastodon.art/@RMiddleton
Full Texthttps://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Tender_buttons
Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot2h ago
A WHITE HUNTER. A white hunter is nearly crazy.

A LEAVE. In the middle of a tiny spot and nearly bare there is a nice thing to say that wrist is leading. Wrist is leading.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot8h ago
CRANBERRIES. ¶4-6 A remarkable degree of red means that, a remarkable exchange is made.
Climbing altogether in when there is a solid chance of soiling no more than a dirty thing, coloring all of it in steadying is jelly.
Just as it is suffering, just as it is succeeded, just as it is moist so is there no countering.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot14h ago
A custom which is necessary when a box is used and taken is that a large part of the time there are three which have different connections.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot20h ago
ORANGE IN. ¶6 A no, a no since, a no since when, a no since when since, a no since when since a no since when since, a no since, a no since when since, a no since, a no, a no since a no since, a no since, a no since.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot1d ago
A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot1d ago
​Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot1d ago
A BOX. A large box is handily made of what is necessary to replace any substance. Suppose an example is necessary, the plainer it is made the more reason there is for some outward recognition that there is a result.
A box is made sometimes and them to see to see to it neatly and to have the holes stopped up makes it necessary to use paper.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot1d ago
ROASTBEEF. ¶2 Very well. Certainly the length is thinner and the rest, the round rest has a longer summer. To shine, why not shine, to shine, to station, to enlarge, to hurry the measure all this means nothing if there is singing, if there is singing then there is the resumption.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot2d ago
It has that shape nicely. Very nicely may not be exaggerating. Very strongly may be sincerely fainting. May be strangely flattering. May not be strange in everything. May not be strange to.
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Bot2d ago
Gertrude Stein : Tender Buttons : Food : SUGAR. A violent luck and a whole sample and even then quiet.
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