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titled her own confessions. Many of the people whom she had
slandered did not realize their unimportance, and they hastened
into print to correct Miss Stein's multitudinous imperfections of
memory, which had incarnadined faces all over Paris.
Georges Braque (who is not unimportant) said that "Miss Stein
understood nothing of what went on around her." This was strong
criticism of one who had appointed herself mentor of the Cubist
movement.
André Salmon was equally enlightening. He wrote, "Miss Stein's
account of the formation of cubism is entirely false. . . . Miss
Stein often mentions people whom she never knew very well, and
so irresponsibly, in fact, that the reader is astounded. . . . And
what confusion! What incomprehension of an epoch!"