Mervyn Peake: Frasi in inglese
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 68, section 1 (p. 730)
“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
Origine: Titus Groan
“To live at all is miracle enough.”
Poem of the same title (also on Peake's tombstone)
Origine: Collected Poems
“Why break the heart that never beat from love?”
Origine: Titus Groan
"Each Day I Live in a Glass Room," A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)
“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”
Origine: Titus Groan
“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
Origine: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 2 “The Great Kitchen” (p. 18)
Contesto: It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
“Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.”
Origine: Titus Groan
Origine: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 1 “The Hall of the Bright Carvings” (p. 9)
“The paper is breathless
Under the hand
And the pencil is poised
Like a warlock's wand.”
Poem in The Glassblowers (1950)
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 69 (p. 743)
“Pompous as only failures can be.”
Origine: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 82 (p. 959)
“There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.”
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 32 (p. 555)
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 57, section 3 (p. 686)
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 36 (p. 595)
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 17 (p. 484)
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 22 (p. 527)
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 1, section 1 (p. 399)
Origine: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 38 (p. 606)
