A suitably lugubrious Happy Birthday to Edward Gorey (1922-2000)--unchallenged master of Disquieting Nonsense, the Ironic Gothic, Existentialist Dada--on what would have been his 101st. Never forget the Importance of Being Edwardian; *he* never did.

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