From: pudels [pudels@cybertours.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:19 AM
To: goodbye@goreyography.com
Subject: Goodbye Mr. Gorey!

It was twenty years ago that I stumbled onto Edward Gorey's work in a
bookstore in New Hampshire. My older sister was with me, (I was fifteen
at the time), and was impressed enough by my enthusiasm with the copy of
"Amphigorey" I was looking to lend me the money to buy it, and my world
was never the same. I taught myself how to draw by carefully emulating
his crosshatched designs, and owe to him just about my entire artistic
career. It was thrilling to find someone else in the world with the same
macabre sense of humor which I had always had to hide from most of the
yokels in the small town in which I grew up. That first thrill of
recognition has never quite left me. Here's to Edward Gorey! Let us
raise a glass of artificial grape soda!