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Mervyn Peake

Oer seas that have no beaches To end their waves upon, I floated with twelve peaches, A sofa and a swan.Poem Oer seas that have no beaches

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When Uncle Jake Became a snake He never found it out; And so as no one mentions it One sees him still about.Poem Uncles and aunts

— Mervyn Peake men

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls.Chapter 1 “The Hall of the Bright Carvings” p. 9; opening words

— Mervyn Peake war

Autumn returned to Gormenghast like a dark spirit re-entering its stronghold.Chapter 28 “Flay Brings a Message” p. 152

— Mervyn Peake men

If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing—flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it.Chapter 2 pp. 404-405

— Mervyn Peake science

There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.Chapter 32 p. 555

— Mervyn Peake war

Words were shapes and sounds to him. He saw them, as if he were listening to an unknown language, in shapes.Maeve Gilmore his widow, Introduction to A Book of Nonsense, p. 10

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