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What are masterpieces and why...? is a piece based on the famous essay by American writer Gertrude Stein «What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them?» (1936). Stein's writings and poetry are mainly built around three fundamental components: repetition, lack of temporal perception - continuous «instant-time» - and use of common everyday use words instead of a more complex vocabulary. Moreover, it's a deeply resonant literature, with continuos alliterations and