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The Fatal Lozenge
by
Edward Gorey
Paperback, 0 pages
Published
March 28th 1960
by Ivan Obolensky
(first published 1960)
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The Fatal lozenge, otherwise known as the A to Z of death for fucked up children by Edward Gorey. Sorry Billy. A doesn't stand for apple any more. It stands for apparition. That's right billy, "You see dead people!"
D is no longer for dogs. D is for the drudge who mops the floors until she dies.
The death continues until you get to Z. Or until you get so depressed that you just can't read on any more.
If you are plagued by annoying whiney spoiled kids, give them this book before bedtime.
D is no longer for dogs. D is for the drudge who mops the floors until she dies.
The death continues until you get to Z. Or until you get so depressed that you just can't read on any more.
If you are plagued by annoying whiney spoiled kids, give them this book before bedtime.
Fatal Lozenge is tied with The Gashlycrumb Tinies for best alphabet book EVER. This 5 star rating is brought to you by the letter S:
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My parents owned The Fatal Lozenge in this alternately titled edition. I prefer it to The Gashlycrumb Tinies for two reasons:
1. It is less cute (though I recognize that "cute" is a relative term when applied to Gorey's non-cat oeuvre);
2. The verses are quatrains rather than couplets rhymed across two letters. This gives the present volume a less sing-songy cadence (and thus a less funny presentation, but in a good way) and, with 104 lines rather than 26, imparts more subst...more
My parents owned The Fatal Lozenge in this alternately titled edition. I prefer it to The Gashlycrumb Tinies for two reasons:
1. It is less cute (though I recognize that "cute" is a relative term when applied to Gorey's non-cat oeuvre);
2. The verses are quatrains rather than couplets rhymed across two letters. This gives the present volume a less sing-songy cadence (and thus a less funny presentation, but in a good way) and, with 104 lines rather than 26, imparts more subst...more
I'm tired of Gorey's gimmick. I would like something clever please. I have no appreciation for shock value. I do enjoy macabre works but all of his works are the same, it becomes boring and tedious. One or two great stanzas out of 26 just doesn't do it for me.
Another bizarre rhyming alphabet of death, destruction and dreadful demises. Nobody does this better than Edward Gorey.
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Born in Chicago, Gorey came from a colorful family; his parents, Helen Dunham Garvey and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11, then remarried in 1952 when he was 27. One of his step-mothers was Corinna Mura, a cabaret singer who had a brief role in the classic film Casablanca. His father was briefly a journalist. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. John Garvey, was a popular...more
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