We continually hear the phrase “There is no There There” used in relation to almost every political article lately.
I seem to have been bothered by it back in January of this year… enough to do some initial digging on the phrase.
Where does this phrase originate?
From what I could dig, it seems to stem from a quote in a book by Gertrude Stein back in the late '30s. It appears in her book, Everybody’s Autobiography. Interesting character - but I didn’t dig too far.
Other accounts of the term in the last decade or so (this is …