The Gorey-Kierkegaard Connection
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.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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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.