“It was not certain what significance the ceremony held, for unfortunately the records were lost, but the formality was no less sacred for being unintelligible.”

— Mervyn Peake , book Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 40 “Meanwhile” (pp. 230-231)

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