List of Abbreviations Introduction TEXTS Melanctha (excerpt, from Three Lives, 1905) The Making of Americans (excerpt, 1911) Picasso (1911) Flirting at the Bon Marche (1911) Bon Marche Weather (1911) Orta or One Dancing (excerpt, 1912) Susie Asado (1912) Tender Buttons: Objects, Food (1913) Scenes from the Door (from Useful Knowledge, 1918) Photograph (1920) A Movie (1920) An Elucidation (1923) If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1923) Fourteen Anonymous Portraits (1923) Are There Arithmetics (1923) Business in Baltimore (1925) Composition as Explanation (1926) Patriarchal Poetry (excerpt, 1927) Sentences and Paragraphs (from How to Write, 1930) History or Messages from History (1930) We Came. A History (1930) Stanzas in Meditation (excerpt, 1932) Lecture I (from Narration, 1934) Identity a Poem (1935) What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936) DOCUMENTS With Apologies to Gertrude Stein," newspaper advertisement Two love notes from Stein to Toklas (n.d.): Dear dainty delicious darling" and Ir/Re/Sis/Ti /Belle" Virgil Thomson, Letter to Gertrude Stein (May 30, 1933) Stein Opera Sung by All-Negro Cast," New York Times (February 9, 1934) Thornton Wilder, Introduction to Narration (1935) Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments of Permissions