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Mervyn Peake
“To live at all is miracle enough.”
Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems

Mervyn Peake
“If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings”
Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Novels

Homer
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
Homer, The Iliad

Mervyn Peake
“It is my cape of good hope, and if it isn't I will probably bite your nose off”
Mervyn Peake, Mr Pye

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without
“The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.”
Stephen Hawking

3155 FMS --A LONG WAY GONE (challenge reissue) — 45 members — last activity Apr 27, 2008 07:17AM
With the forthcoming visit to Austin by Ishmael Beah, I am reissuing last year's challenge to read A LONG WAY GONE. Go here for more details on Beah' ...more
10871 The New Weird — 300 members — last activity Feb 08, 2022 04:57PM
I am not starting this group because I feel I know a lot about the New Weird. Quite the contrary. I'm starting the group because I don't know much, bu ...more
970 Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die — 21857 members — last activity 19 hours, 51 min ago
For those attempting the crazy feat of reading all 1001 books! For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 10 ...more
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