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Mervyn Peake is a veritable nonstop freak machine

'God's geese! You startled me,' said Muzzlehatch, raising his hand as though to guard himself from attack. 'I'd forgotten you were here. I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.'

This book is murdering me, Drake! Mur-der-ing!

chapters and chapters of intense detail and minutia only to so swiftly, in matters of sentences, end my favorite characters lives. phew