"Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today."

from Everybody's Autobiography

Gertrude Stein

ETA:

came across this image & was struck by the way in which it is a sort of mirror inverse of the above pic of GS, ABT, and Basket. Thank you, internet, for the weirdness.

gloss

passage 2

vex and bury