Everybody All Day Long Knows What Is Happening

You can tell that so well in the difficulty of writing novels or poetry these days. The tradition has always been that you may more or less describe the things that happen you imagine them of course but you more or less describe the things that happen but nowadays everybody all day long knows what is happening and so what is happening is not really interesting, one knows it by radio cinemas newspapers biographies autobiographies until what is happening does not really thrill any one.

—Gertrude Stein, "What Are Master-Pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them?"