It makes me a little unhappy that everything is a little funny. It makes me a little unhappy that many things are funny and pecu;liar and strange to me. It makes me a little unhappy that everything and every one is sometime a little queer to me. It makes me a little unhappy that every one seems sometime almost a little crazy. It does make me  every one a little unhappy that every one sometime is a queer one to me. It does make me somtime a little uncertain, it does sometimes make me very uncertain about everything and always then it is perplexing what is certain what is not certain, who is a queer one, what is a funny thing for some one to be wanting or not wanting or doing or not doing or thinking or not thinking or believing or not believing.

Gertrude Stein

The Making of Americans, page 531-532