His face wore the resigned expression of one who knew that … - Mervyn Peake

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His face wore the resigned expression of one who knew that the only difference between one day and the next lies in the pages of a calendar.

Mervyn Peake

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Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English novelist, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books, though the Titus books would be more accurate.

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Alternative Names: Mervyn Laurence Peake • Mervyn L. Peake • Mervyn Lawrence Peake

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

So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage.

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work … a classic of our age.

His face wore the resigned expression of one who knew that the only difference between one day and the next lies in the pages of a calendar. - Mervyn Peake

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