Reflections on life at “De Witte Wand”…
My result from the What Horrible Edward Gorey Death Will You Die? quiz, found via Lost in Books
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I adore Edward Gorey – I have ‘The Object lesson’ and ‘The other statue’ and ‘Amphigorey’ which contains the compilation of 15 books now hard to get hold of. The drawings are superb, but I also love his lines – ‘Emily, helping her brother look for his twisby, saw a candlestick mounted on a horse’s hoof thrown from a limousine as it drove away’ and ‘As the party was about to retire for the night Fenks announced that the Lisping Elbow was not in its case’.. I mean, I thought it was only I who had such bizaare thoughts, but this guy puts them down in ink. As to the death – I love ‘X is for Xerxes devoured by mice’ but the picture that goes with Neville (who died of ennui) is tragic! Personally I think I’ll go with Z for Zillah who drank too much gin.
And Lo and behold, when I did the test, Gin is exactly what I got! sheesh.
Gelert, yes, that’s it – it’s not just the wonderful pen and ink etchings (that scratch away at one’s life), but those wonderful lines. Alas, I only have The Dwindling Party – but, in my defence, it is a pop-up book, and of some dusty distinction, I feel…
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