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Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold - A Life
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Cecily
The wondrous socks... make me feel very sprightly and spring-like, and I am leaping about most frolicsome-like and giving little whimsical crys [sic] of delight which do not suit my inner aspect, but which satisfy my feeling.
How could one not delight in a man who thanks his mother-in-law like that? She kept him in socks for the rest of her life.


A book and a tree – what more could one want? (Though this looks a little precarious.)

Mervyn Peake is best known for the Titus Groan/Gormenghast books
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Kyle
Mar 06, 2013 marked it as to-read
Moira
Dec 28, 2009 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition