A wit so remote

A wit so remote

Miss Stein tells the story of her own life in an oblique and mystifying fashion. She has written the autobiography of someone else, of her friend Miss Toklas, but although Miss Toklas is made to speak in the first person there is not much said about her and a great deal about Miss Stein. By this means she is able to say through the mouth, undoubtedly the willing mouth, of Miss Toklas what might otherwise have been difficult to say. “The three ge…