Quote by: Mervyn Peake

The Aunts put their arms about one another so that their faces were cheek to cheek, and from this doublehead they gazed up at Steerpike with a row of four equidistant eyes. There was no reason why there should not have been forty, or four hundred of them. It so happened that only four had been removed from a dead and endless frieze whose inexhaustible and repetitive theme was forever, eyes, eyes, eyes.


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Author Bio


  • NameMervyn Peake
  • DescriptionEnglish writer, artist, poet and illustrator
  • AliasesMervyn Laurence Peake
  • BornJuly 9, 1911
  • DiedNovember 17, 1968
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist; Illustrator