“He was a precocious child. He claimed to have read all the works of Victor Hugo by the age of eight.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Edward Gorey <\/a> Edward Gorey Love of George Balanchine Part I <\/a><\/p>\n Feb 22 – Int’l cat day in Japan .. see Gorey with cat here.<\/a><\/p>\n Wes Anderson is under the spell of Edward Gorey<\/a><\/p>\n Poet Frank O\u2019Hara and macabre writer and illustrator Edward Gorey were roommates at Harvard in the late \u201940s, where they furnished their apartment with garden furniture and a coffee table made from a repurposed tombstone. According to The New Yorker, the pair \u201cestablished their rooms as (in the words of a home-town friend) the spot to \u2018lie down on a chaise lounge, get mellow with a few drinks, and listen to Marlene Dietrich records.’\u201d Pompous and eccentric? Perhaps. But we bet their room was the coolest place on campus. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University. photo via Paris Review Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 \u2013 April 15, 2000) “He was a precocious child. He claimed … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1aaagorey-at-the-dance-e1550849354607.jpg\")
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\nEdward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
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