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étiquette


in 1965, edward gorey published this tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to the day's strait-laced etiquette guides. it's
mischievous in its rejection of old sexual mores and delightfully brazen for women with a loose grasp on prim behavior.

(simply click on any page to enlarge.)





(see also: splendor in the grass, the melancholy death of oyster boy, the portable dorothy parker)
Posted by jamie at Saturday, January 17, 2009
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