Monday, September 19, 2011

First Lines: Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (The Gormenghast Trilogy)



Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls.

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