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There, there, my dear

January 22, 2004 by Scott Rosenberg

San Francisco has the most erudite graffitists. Seen in chalk on the sidewalk at Market and Fourth St., near the BART exit:

There’s no there here either

Gertrude Stein, of course, famously said “There’s no there there” about her native Oakland — though the line was intended less as the put-down it is so often understood to be than as a regretful comment about how “you can’t go home again.”

In any case, someone from the East Bay clearly wants to even the score.
SLIGHT CORRECTION: It seems that I’m wrong to call Stein an Oakland “native.” She was born in Pittsburgh, but spent much of her childhood in Oakland.

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