Miss Furr and Miss Skeene

"They stayed there and were gay there, not very gay there, just gay there. They were both gay there, they were regularly working there both of them cultivating their voices there, they were both gay there. Georgine Skeene was gay there and she was regular, regular in being gay, regular in not being gay, regular in being a gay one who was one not being gay longer than was needed to be one being quite a gay one. They were both gay then there and both working there then."

Read “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene,” a fiction by Gertrude Stein – Biblioklept


re 15-years: ooh that grates especially!
It is the exclamation mark that I find offensive.