Yesterday, I went to my dermatologist.
I came in, and he said Rose.
A rose is a rose is a
Then he said, “Do you know what thats from?”
I said, “Shakespeare?”
He said it was by a famous female lesbian poetess, one who had lived with Alice B. Toklas.
I used to have this book by Cecil which explained.
Of course, I don’t have it anymore.
So help me out here. He’s waiting for me to call with the answer(kidding)
Gertrude Stein.
Thank you.
I love you, Alice B. Toklas! And so does Gertrude Stein…
Shakespeare had, in Romeo and Juliet, “Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?”
BTW, while Stein said “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” I think it was indeed Shakespeare who said (in Romeo and Juliet), “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (Juliet referring to Romeo’s Montague heritage)
Just to clear up any confusion you may have had, vanila!
Ok, Guinastasia, looks like I owe you a drink of your choice.
Grab the Bailey’s and you’ve got yourself a deal.
and make that a Kahlua for me…
Will do!
And I’ll get vanilla a drink because I misspelled “vanilla”!
I noticed, but didn’t want to say anything…
How about a vanilla schnopps?
mmmm, perhaps schnapps?
"Gertrude Stein’s famous line “Rose is a rose is a rose” first appeared in Sacred Emily (1913) and showed up in later works as
well. “Sacred Emily” can be found in:
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
Vintage Books, 1990
Geography and Plays
University Press, 1993 (reprint)"
"Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967)
Toklas and writer Gertrude (“A rose is a rose is a rose”) Stein were a loving pair who hosted a literary salon in Paris for four
decades. In 1954, Toklas wrote a famous cookbook that contains a recipe for marijuana-laced brownies."
http://www.geocities.com/jiji_muge/isarose.html
ha.mustn’t post while drunk…
My dear vanilla, I hasted to purchase for your enjoyment and imbibement the finest finery of liquid refreshment. Ergo, I shall I buy all the shots of Schnapps.
handy, in your honor, this is my 2000 post!
I’ll catch up to you yet…
and thanks for the info.
Also, ABT had a movie named after her!
“I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!” (1968)
Peter Sellers plays a middleaged businessman who is persuaded to drop out of society and becoming a loving and lovable hippy by the leggy Leigh Taylor-Young.
Like I say, a chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.
Cecil also gave a recipe for the Toklas brownies.
(He says that it wasn’t actually her recipe, a friend of hers tricked her into publishing it)
Starbury, do you think that Cecil tried some of those brownies? Hmmmmm. Dare we ask him?