He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast wit…

Mervyn Peake
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He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living. ✨ Mervyn Peake (2008). Titus Alone, p.268, The Overlook Press
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He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living. ✨ Mervyn Peake (2008). Titus Alone, p.268, The Overlook Press

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