 A similar essay of homosexual men begins more obviously with the line "Sometimes men are kissing" but is less well known.In "" Stein comments on lesbian sexuality and the work abounds with "highly condensed layers of public and private meanings" created by wordplay including puns on the words "box", "cow", and in titles such as "tender buttons".Along with Stein's widely known "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" quotation, "there is no there there" is also one of her most famous.