"Never Get on an Elevator Alone with a Foreign Woman," T.V. Guide cartoon, February 6, 1988. Edward St. John Gorey. Ink and watercolor on paper.
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"Never Get on an Elevator Alone with a Foreign Woman," T.V. Guide cartoon, February 6, 1988. Edward St. John Gorey. Ink and watercolor on paper.

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"This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”
So true! The important connection that can take something potentially ordinary to lead you on a journey you weren't expecting. Thank you Edward Corey for putting some rambley words to this idea.
I found this quote in a review of a new book, Floating Worlds about the letters from this illustrator to one of his friends and collaborators, Peter F Neumeyer. A beautiful example of the joys of snail mail.