No "there there"

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:06 AM -0500 10/30/02, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>yOn Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Billionbridges.com wrote:
>
>>  It seems to me that it should read: '...there was no "there"
>>  there.' Or is the writer quoting Jonathan Wolman? Or
>>  is there something else going on here that I'm missing?
>
>Gertrude Stein wrote "there is no there there," so Slate is quoting her
>correctly.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
Referring to Oakland, her hometown, and how it was unrecognizable
when she returned home.  (It's usually been reinterpreted to refer to
a place with no intrinsic content or interest.)

Larry