Mervyn Peake: Zitate auf Englisch
Quelle: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 68, section 1 (p. 730)
“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Groan
Quelle: Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Groan
Quelle: Titus Groan
“To live at all is miracle enough.”
Poem of the same title (also on Peake's tombstone)
Quelle: Collected Poems
"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.”
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Groan
Quelle: Titus Groan
“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Groan
Quelle: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 2 “The Great Kitchen” (p. 18)
Kontext: 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.
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Groan
Quelle: 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)
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Groan
Quelle: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 37 “The Grotto” (p. 211)
Quelle: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 69 (p. 743)
“Pompous as only failures can be.”
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Alone
Quelle: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 82 (p. 959)
“There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.”
Quelle: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 32 (p. 555)
Quelle: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 36 (p. 595)
Quelle: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 1, section 1 (p. 399)
Quelle: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 38 (p. 606)
Mervyn Peake buch Titus Groan
Quelle: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 69 “Mr Rottcodd Again” (p. 396)
