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April 19, 2026

Rejection letter sent to Gertrude Stein by A. C. Fifield, April 19, 1912

I’m in the submission process waiting to hear if any other festivals will screen Strophische Gedichten. If history should not treat us so kindly (I still need to read both Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife and Cecilia Konchar Farr & Janie Sisson’s As I Was Saying), may we all hope for better and brighter contemporary prospects than Stein received. So far, no one’s had anything but kind things to say:

Of course, the benefit of being a multi-disciplinary dilettante is perennially having too many irons in the fire. Sometimes that double-edge sword pays dividends:

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Thought:

“As I walk’d by my self
And talk’d to my self,
My self said unto me,
Look to thy self,
Take care of thy self,
For nobody cares for thee.

I answer’d my self,
And said to my self,
In the self-same repartee,
Look to thy self
Or not look to thy self,
The self-same thing will be.”

Anonymous | “King William the Third to Himself”

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