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Sign: New York - Library Walk-Quote from Gertrude Stein’s book "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"

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7 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
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Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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The Library Walk, is a venture launched in 1996 by the New York Public Library, Grand Central Partnership and New Yorker Magazine, in which are embedded in bronze plaques quotes from well-known books, or those dealing with books and literature. The panels designed by artist Gregg LeFevre were laid in 1998 from the New York Public Library building along 41st Street.

The plaque contains a quote from the book of the American author who lived in Paris - Gertrude Stein: "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas". A book in which she describes life through the eyes of her partner Alice B. Toklas.
Gertrude Stein was also known for the saying "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose".

The text on the plaque that appears around the quote, looks like gibberish, but is actually a kind of mirror script (written in reverse order), with the text:

not gibberish but merely writing backwards. but then again, who am i to judge. a good deal of gertrude stein’s .writing seems to me to be not far from gibberish. as i said this is not really gibberish. and the last definition is: a pretentious or needlessly obscure speech or language the third definition is a technical or esoteric language used by workers in a particular activity or field of knowledge. the second definition is: a strange. barbarous or outlandish language or dialect. the dictionary definition of gibberish is: confused, unintelligible, or meaningless speech or language .this is not gibberish this however is not gibberish but merely writing backwards. but then again, who am i to judge. a good deal of gertrude stein’s writing seems to me to be not far from gibberish. as i said this is not really gibberish. and the last definition is: a pretentious or needlessly obscure speech or language. the third definition is a technical or esoteric language used by workers in a particular activity or field of knowledge the second definition is: a strange, barbarous or outlandish language or dialect. the dictionary definition of gibberish is: confused, unintelligible, or meaningless speech or language .this is not gibberish this however is not gibberish but merely writing backwards. but then again, who am i to judge. a good deal of gertrude stein’s writing seems to me to be not far from gibberish. as I said this is not really gibberish. and the last definition is: a pretentious or needlessly obscure speech or language. the third definition is a technical or esoteric language used by workers in a particular activity on field of knowledge. the second definition is: a strange, barbarous or outlandish language or dialect. the dictionary definition of gibberish is: confused, unintelligible, or meaningless speech or language ,this is not gibberish

A text that actually says it is not gibberish, and brings gibberish definitions from the dictionary, referring to Gertrude Stein’s writings that are not far from gibberish




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