"A Box" by Gertrude Stein

I can't make this shit up:

"A BOX"

"Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle. So then the order is that a white way of being round is something suggesting a pin and is it disappointing, it is not, it is so rudimentary to be analysed and see a fine substance strangely, it is so earnest to have a green point not to red but to point again."

See what I have to put up with? And you thought O-Chem was tough.

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