From: DALTNOT@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 9:41 PM
To: goodbye@goreyography.com
Subject: No Subject

i live in providence, rhode island.  it  is always a pleasure to find out 
about performances  and exhibits of edward gorey's work.  over the past 
couple of years there have been several plays written by gorey that have been 
presented close-by enough  for my wife and i to attend...i remember one, 
called "english soup,"  put on in a "theatre"/garage on cape cod...it was 
more of a garage.  it was great.  we drove excitedly out there after finding 
out about this thing at the very last minute.  it didn't take long...the play 
was about to begin and this man walks in and stood off to the side of us.  he 
was edward gorey.  the play was dark and very funny,  which means everyone 
laughs at different times...he laughed when no  one else laughed and made it 
all the more obvious that his work goes even deeper than any of even his 
biggest admirers can see.  in this age of change in the world we must thank 
him for keeping the old ways alive.  his work is like finding an old 
typewriter in an antique store and realizing that you have to have it because 
you remember that there was typing before computers and you always got ink on 
your fingers trying to fix the ribbon when it got jammed up...thank you 
edward gorey.  i will think of you often.  

                                       -c.daltry