Leave the stronger and the lesser things to me! Lest that conger named Vanessa who is longer than a dresser visits thee. - Mervyn Peake

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven.

There's something else, Mr. Muzzlehatch."
"I'm sure there is. In fact there is everything else.

It was not possible for him to visit his library as often as he wished, for the calls made upon him by the endless ceremonials which were his exacting duty to perform robbed him for many hours each day of his only pleasure—books.