Mervyn Peake Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: July 9, 1911 - November 17, 1968
Birthday: July 9
Death: November 17
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.
source: Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press
topic: Night, Ivy, Long, Masonry, Long Shadows, Night Owl
