“The ritual which his body had had to perform for fifty years had been no preparation for the unexpected.”

— Mervyn Peake , book Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 41 “The Burning” (pp. 248-249)

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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968

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