Gertrude Stein

Getrude and Alice live in Paris. [...] Gertrude likes driving but she refuses to reverse. She will only go forward because she says that the whole point of the twentieth century is progress.

The other thing that Gertrude won't do is read the map. Alice Toklas reads the map and Gertrude sometimes takes notice and sometimes not.

It is going dark. [...] Alice is losing patience. She throws down the map and shouts at Gertrude: 'THIS IS THE WRONG ROAD.'

Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we're on it.'

Jeanette Winterson

1:19 p.m. - 2012-02-11