Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
Edward GoreyMr 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.
Edward GoreyA small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.
Edward GoreyThis is the theoryโฆ that anything that is artโฆ is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and itโs no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else itโs irritating.
Edward Gorey