Old News

Although it appears every day around one o'clock, the Paris newspaper Le Monde is dated to the following morning, so that the paper one reads on Monday afternoon is written as though it were already Tuesday, and things that may have happened today appear to have happened yesterday, while what happened last night appears to have happened two days ago. - Adam Gopnick

That is really what the newspaper has to say that everything that has happened has happened on that day but really this is not true because everything that happened on that day on the newspaper day has really happened the day before and that makes all the trouble that there is with the newspaper as it is and in every way they try to destroy this day the day between the day before and the day the newspaper day. Of course by day I naturally mean night too but the newspaper does not know and so it cannot really say that there is really any difference between the night and the day. That is another of the difficulties they have in face of the real trouble that the newspaper day is always the day before the newspaper day and yet that is what they really have to say that the newspaper day is the day it is, which of course it is not.

And so everything in the newspaper begins with its not being so and that like everything complicates and makes difficult telling and listening, it may complicate and the newspaper does by making it too easy, so much do they have to deceive the reader into feeling that yesterday is to-day that they have to make it too easy and in making it too easy they do do something they had not intended to do they make it no longer an exciting thing to do because they have commenced to do too well what if they did have it to do it would be impossible to do.

Do you see what I mean.

It is very interesting.

And it has an awful lot to do with everything. - Gertrude Stein