Amputation Quote by Edward Gorey
“Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: 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.”
![“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH: A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'd By your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shade Below the garden... His mind's eye sees them…” quote by Edward Gorey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71d/edward-gorey-9339_five-years_mr-earbrass-was-virtually-asleep-when-se_3123103.jpg)
![“[T]he forget-me-not gray of an eye squinting at an incipient kiss, the placid expression of your ears when you would lift up your hair … how can I reconcile myself to your disappearance, to this gaping hole, into which slides everything—my whole life, wet gravel, objects, and habits—and what…” quote by Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c3/vladimir-nabokov-198_life_t-he-forget-me-not-gray-of-an-eye-squint_2679641.jpg)
