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Halsey Edge was a tall scrawny man of fifty-something with a pinched yellow face and no hair at all. He called himself "a ghoul by profession and inclination"--his only joke, if that is what it was--by which he meant he was an archæologist, and he was very proud of his collection of battle-axes. He was not so bad once you had resigned yourself to the fact that you were in for occasional catalogings of his armory--stone axes, copper axes, bronze axes, double-bladed axes, faceted axes, polygonal axes, scalloped axes, hammer axes, adze axes, Mesopotamian axes, Hungarian axes, Nordic axes, and all of them looking pretty moth-eaten. It was his wife we objected to. Her name was Leda, but he called her Tip. She was very small and her hair, eyes, and skin, though naturally of different shades, were all muddy. She seldom sat--she perched on things--and liked to cock her head a little to one side. Nora had a theory that once when Edge opened an antique grave, Tip ran out of it, and Margot Innes always spoke of her as the gnome, pronouncing all the letters. She once told me that she did not think any literature of twenty years ago would live, because it had no psychiatry in it. They lived in a pleasant old three-story house on the edge of Greenwich Village and their liquor was excellent.

hair color: very dark brown

favorite color: Nothing specific but I generally prefer the deeper shades of red, green, purple, etc

favorite drink: mojitos, horchata

one thing you love about yourself: I am an excellent houseguest and a charming addition to your dinner party.

if you could be any animal, what would you be? It's boring to say housecat, but they really do have the ideal life.

dream place to visit: Prague, Mexico City, and the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.

one thing you're looking forward to: Seeing my offline bestie soon, the OG Julia Quinn fan who helped me write i have been a fool for lesser things.

biggest dream: To feel at peace in my own skin. Working on it!

song that's permanently on repeat: New to the list this year was "Worship" from The Testament of Ann Lee soundtrack and no I was NOT doing well when it was constantly looping, 🙃

Otherwise it's probably "Cut To The Feeling" by Carly Rae Jepsen.