"Change and growth cannot be halted, time must run on. That is the whole moral of the three books."
— Mervyn Peake

January 1, 1970

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Colin Greenland, Beowulf to Kafka: Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone, reprinted in the omnibus edition The Gormenghast Novels published by The Overlook Press, p. 1141