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CORRECTION: SEE CORRECTION APPENDED; Edward Gorey -- An article in the July 18 Sunday Calendar section about the late author-artist Edward Gorey said that a recent showing of his work at San Diego State University marked his first exhibition in California in nearly 40 years. San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum has had three Gorey exhibitions since 1993.; Edward Gorey and California -- An article in the July 18 Calendar about the late author-artist Edward Gorey said that a recent showing of his work at San Diego State University marked his first exhibition in California in nearly 40 years. San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum has had three Gorey exhibitions since 1993.; Edward Gorey -- An article in the July 18 Calendar section about the late author-artist Edward Gorey said a recent showing of his work at San Diego State University marked his first exhibition in California in nearly 40 years. San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum has had three Gorey exhibitions since 1993.
THE BATS ARE FLYING. The tall Edwardians are on parade. A woman shrieks. A child falls down, and sleepy-eyed students look up from their books.
"Dreams do come true."
A piece of masonry splits the air. Dry salt herring dangles from the wall. Cats lounge. The moon looks sad, and someone is late for class.
"I wish he were still around -- we need him."
A flashlight beam prowls the moors. A bottle of vanilla extract lies in the mud.
"Ed Gorey rocks da' house."
Indubitably.
Dead for more than four years and long since a cultural cliche, Edward Gorey shows no signs of letting up. Since March, he has been rocking the house at San Diego State University in an exhibit of work that has drawn mostly rave reviews -- if the one-liners scrawled in the exhibition book are to be believed.
"Dude, this is tight yo, so off the hook, my dog. You the chillest artist homie."
Originally slated for a three-month run to close May 31, "From Prodigy to Polymath: The Singular Journey of Edward Gorey" has been given a not-so-typical extension through Aug. 6. Billed as "the largest public exhibition of Gorey work ever held," this eclectic array of books, letters, quotations, journals, photographs, sketches and paraphernalia has been...