November 2011
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Do you find it easy to create characters—for instance, the people from The Loathsome Couple?
I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.
- Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
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INTRODUCTION
Upon being asked by a Reader whether the verses contained in this book were true.
And is it true? It is not True.
And if it were it wouldn’t do,
For people such as me and you
Who pretty nearly all day long
Are doing something rather wrong.
Because if things were really so,
You would have perished long ago,
And I would not have lived to write
The noble lines that meet your...
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“A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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“Neither mine nor other people’s prospects seem particularly pleasing just...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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“I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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“We did I think talk about your feeling of it’s fun to be square, and while...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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“Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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“The world may think it idiotic,
Nor care at all we’re symbiotic,
But I...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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“Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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“The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey’s Great Simple Theory About Art...”
– Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
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