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“Useful Knowledge is pleasant and therefore it is very much to be enjoyed,” writes Gertrude Stein in her “Advertisement for this Book”—an apt characterization of the experience of reading it sixty years after its disappearance from print…
“The importance of USEFUL KNOWLEDGE is that it is one of the few Gertrude Stein satirical works; not political so much as cultural, she spoofs American advertising memorably in ‘Business in Baltimore’ in such passages as ‘more and better and better and best.,’ which, if you read it aloud, is sure to reduce any audience to dangerous amounts of laughter.”—Dick Higgins
