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Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
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Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual; for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone; and yet within his body something other- other than this umbrageous legacy. For first and foremost, he is child.Gormenghast
