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• Steward had first written to Stein from Columbus in 1932 to inform her of the death of Clare Andrews. By way of introduction, he had noted in a Stein-like pastiche that “one day in class he read your As a Wife Has a Cow a Love Story and he read it so well we were all thenceforth readers of Gertrude Stein.” Stein’s immediate openness to Steward and ...
• There was an awful squabble here, the people turned provincial on me, I was like to lose my position. But
• I try to liberate the students, or increase their backgrounds, or train them to teach themselves.
• lapsing…I am coming to the conclusion that if I write to please myself there will be enough other people who will be pleased, after all…I
• With entries such as these, Steward began to discover the real significance of his journal: like Lieutenant Seblon in Querelle de Brest, his writing would explore feelings that were otherwise denied all expression—for there was no one in his life with whom he could share them, including even the young men who evoked them. Such stories could never b...