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Edward Gorey – Take a walk on the dark side of the season BookPage interview by Alden Mudge November 1998 (via edwardgoreyelephanthouse) |
About a month ago, I decided I would give up the news the way I gave up smoking, I have not looked at a newspaper, and I have not watched one second of television news. The whole world could be coming to a complete and utter stop, and I wouldn’t have the faintest notion of it.
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♡ Marie Antoinette had a special affection for music and the arts in general, in which she offered patronage to. According to the Première femme de Chambre, Madame Campan, “music was the accomplishment in which the Queen most delighted. She did not play well on any instrument, but she had become able to read at sight like a first-rate professor.” Marie’s personal library contained plenty of music books, from sonatas, operas and harpsichord music, in which case was one of her favourite instruments to play alongside the harp. ♡




