On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his
new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of
them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the
17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The
Unstrung Harp might apply, but his mind will keep reverting to the
last biscuit on the plate." So begins what the Times Literary
Supplement called "a small masterpiece." TUH is a look at the
literary life and its "attendant woes: isolation, writer's block,
professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But, as with all of
Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its
anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties,
no parties, urns, desuetude, disaffection, claws, loss, trebizond,
napkins, shame, stones, distance, fever, antipodes, mush, glaciers,
incoherence, labels, miasma, amputation, tides, deceit, mourning,
elsewards. You get the point. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey
the writer, about Edward Gorey writing The Unstrung Harp. It's a
cracked mirror of a book, and it's dedicated to RDP or Real Dear
Person.
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