and immensely imaginative romp

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Break the chains of self-doubt and rigid patterns

others hum with unseen power—waiting for the right soul to claim them

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Edward Gorey: The Fraught Settee Slipcase Boxed Notecards salem and immensely imaginative rompIn The Fraught Settee, Edward Gorey serves what he calls the universal solvent in Edwardian parlors, where fainting couches host feverish affairs and fretful discontent. Knowing that Gorey had a penchant for nonsense verse, one wonders whether Q. R. V. is a cryptic cure all or drivel of a dubious nature. The illusive concoctions initials appear on the cover of the book, though its title does not. Published by Goreys Fantod Press in 1990, this