Edmund Gravel, a misanthropic old bachelor, is preparing to celebrate one as usual this Christmas Eve, while sipping a cup of tea and a slice of pudding very stale (" from The Last One He Had Received More than a decade ago" ), when the tea-cozy very useful to keep the tea warm for hours s' escaped a strange creature: (click to enlarge)
"I am the Bahhum bug"! and I'm here to help you discover "The Interest of didacticism !
(roughly the interest that one has to look around, it's so informative, is not it, especially on Christmas Eve!)
Thereupon a second character to -like spectrum knocking.
"I'll show you particularly touching scene."
As we at Edward Gorey is not it, do not expect sweet ...
Orphans, abandoned dogs, paintings flew, strange strange ...
spectrum takes them in thought or a flying carpet all over the village where astounding scenes, not really endearing unfold before their eyes (Alma Crumble broke his wrist while kneading the dough vigorously pudding, for example!).
Enough, Will heinous in character, it directs the chafer tea cozy. Comes another spectrum, which promises this time quite scary scenes ... Of course, from bad to worse ...
Appears at once the vision of a kidnapped by Alfreda Crumble Gypsies, while in the cemetery were dug up a coffin in a freshly dug grave containing very mysterious old newspapers ....
Enough, enough! Another spectrum appears, "this time I'll make you see the scene at heartbreaking."
better and better, as you note.
" To the house opposite Fido WAS Returned From The taxidermist and Set Down by the fireplace. "
It does not take over our old misanthrope to start , terrified, into writing a small stack of invitations ... Like what, the effect did not wait ..
The Fall of the story? Gorey's pure, of course!
In fact the subtitle of the story was:
A dispirited and distasteful diversion for Christmas.
If you would have doubted:)
After all these emotions, I do not know about you, but I'd rather have a cup of tea ...
After all these emotions, I do not know about you, but I'd rather have a cup of tea ...
2 comments:
Really, it's your teapot !!!
You pirated this article from my blog !!! and many others (edward Gorey, True Grit, Roxana Robinson.... (you used my photos, by the way don't you see that you keep the french cover of "Jours Toxiques" by Roxana Robinson ???)
There is the link, and I notice that you falsify the date !!!!!
http://lily-et-ses-livres.blogspot.fr/2010/12/haunted-tea-cosy-edward-gorey.html
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