Alan Moore wrote:

Voodoo economics worked, eh? And Bush adn Carter had nothing to do
with it. Frankly, I think the bubble was bogus to begin with. As
Gurtured Stein said of Oakland, "There's no there there..."


If you are goping to quote someone, at least get the name right please. It's
Gertrude Stein.

And it would also help if you would get the context of the quote right. The
quote was not about Oakland, but about her childhood home.

The quote "There is no there there" appears in Stein's Book "Everybody's
Autobiography". When Stein returned to California on her lecture tour to the
United States in the 1930s, she wanted to visit her childhood home in Oakland,
CA. She records that she could not find the house. (It had been torn down)
Hence, "there is no there there."

This is what she wrote: "What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was
not natural to have come from there yes write about if I like or anything if I
like but not there, there is no there there."

Abrasha
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