“What was important, now, with her eyes bent upon him, and the shadow of a branch trembling across her breast, was the immemorial game of love: no less a game for being grave. No less grave for being wild. Grave as a great green sky. Grave as a surgeon’s knife.”

— Mervyn Peake , book Titus Alone

Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 42 (p. 881)

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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968

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