[HN Gopher] Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey
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       Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey
        
       Author : animalcule
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2025-02-25 22:23 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | sherr wrote:
       | Great piece about a singular man and artist. It is Gorey's
       | centenary this year (born 1925) and by a strange coincidence I
       | just wrote a small blog post about a tribute exhibition I went to
       | last week [1]. He seems to be a soul mate to Charles Addams. I'm
       | not sure what Gorey would make of 2025 but then, was the "real"
       | mundane world, as it really is, the one he inhabited anyway?
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       | [1] https://www.sherringham.net/blog/2025/03/01#gorey
        
       | chasingthewind wrote:
       | I was never a very big fan of Edward Gorey but I always loved his
       | contemporary Ogdred Weary. :)
        
       | hinkley wrote:
       | I asked for Gashlycrumb Tinies for Christmas one year. That book
       | is delightfully morbid                   A is for Amy, who fell
       | down the stairs.              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears.
       | 
       | People ask what the best opening lines are to a books they read.
       | Those two sum up the entire book.
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       | There's a card game called Gloom that has a very Gorey feel to
       | it. To win the game you have to create the most tragic tale for
       | your character.
        
       | ctrlp wrote:
       | Floating Worlds is another source of Gorey letters. They are
       | interesting in their art but also have pervasive lovesickness for
       | (and ignored by) his correspondent suggested (to this reader)
       | throughout.
        
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