What’s the value of that phrase? I don’t get it. The Shakespeare one verges on deep; the Stein one sounds stupid. Or maybe it’s just beyond my mortal means. Someone explain please.
AFAIK, they both mean that no matter what the name or label, the essence of a being or creature or anything remains what it is.
[I’m sleepy right now, so I may have this wrong…]
astro
May 5, 2001, 4:17am
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I think you have it wrong. The correct Gertrude Stein quote is “A rose is a rose and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar but a good cigar is a smoke”.
…scampers away like a bunny
Well, I have noticed that he’s been relying more on the SDStaff to answer questions ever since that article came out…
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar??
Stein?
Freud?
feh
For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between
And I have been a servant of Love for barely a twelvemonth clear,
And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cheery light
And I turn my eyes to the future that Maggie and I must prove,
Will it see me safe through my journey or leave me bogged in the mire?
Open the old cigar-box–let me consider anew–you ?
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
Light me another Cuba–I hold to my first-sworn vows.
The Betrothed (final verses) Rudyard Kipling