He had learned that there were other ways of life from the ways of his great home. He had completed an experience. He had emptied the bright goblet o… - Mervyn Peake

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He had learned that there were other ways of life from the ways of his great home. He had completed an experience. He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor. But with the beauty and the ugliness, the ice and the fire of it on his tongue and in his blood he could begin again.