"Cover and Typography by Edward Gorey"
Also the Potter-Webb Connection, since Webb has had my copy of Vol. I for about twenty years, while Vol. II has sat there on the shelf looking infinitely resigned.
The Gorey-Kierkegaard Connection
January 7, 2012 by at 7:46 pm
Also the Potter-Webb Connection, since Webb has had my copy of Vol. I for about twenty years, while Vol. II has sat there on the shelf looking infinitely resigned.
E is for EDWARD who drew his last breath
S is for SØREN who sickened to death
G is for Gorey whose ink stains my head
K is for Kierkegaard, master of dread
E is for EXPAT who pined for the South
J is for JOB, found with malt in his mouth
M is for MATTHEW with scapular lost
P is for POTTER, in Potter’s Field tossed
Q is for QUIN whose bus brakes were at fault
W is for WEBB who had slowed to a halt
A is for…
…ANGEL, AUGUSTINE, AQUINAS,
And also for APE, ATHEIST, ASININUS.
G is also for genius.
G is also also for generous.
No comment.
C is for CHURCHILL, oblique to the last
As well as for CUBELAND, who starved in his fast
I once met a person who said they could only communicate obliquely.
If only Gorey had illustrated it.
It was suggested.
Few people know that Gorey and Kierkegaard also shared a particular genetic marker: attached earlobes.
TAGGED WITH: THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE BLOG.
I’m ready to trade volume one for volume two now.