Moss-gloved trees
Years of dripping rain from these moss-soft trees, in an endlessly dank, chill climate, has tanned the leather of a...
Towering insult
Gormenghast is a vast, sprawling town of a castle, which seems to have spread organically. Here one of its towers...
Slit-pupilled eyes
The Countess lives in a sea of white cats who hang upon her every word, here looking up at her...
Quill-like face
Trying to picture this face resembling a quill, particularly as it describes the kindly, emotionally intelligent, acerbic doctor enjoying a...
Sand-coloured teeth
What a compelling description of repellent dentistry. Twice Flay is described so, the second time being further likened to the...
As huge as …
Mervyn Peake is a fount of original similes and metaphors. Given the granite-gothic ambiance of Gormenghast, it makes sense that...
Sea the colour
I love different ways of describing eyes, and colours, and this one allows some range in its definition. Blue or...
A thinking breakfast
This is one of two delightful quotations from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan in which the characters mention their need to...
Rich with rust
An unusual simile for rust, though of course, once seen, it seems natural. A beech hedge in winter has an...
As ripe as …
Swelter is assailed by life-sapping loathing for Flay, who returns the compliment. Their battle is astounding for its intensity and...
Call him Titus
Baby Titus, born into a crumbling, rambling pile of stone, with parents of a warmth and tenderness approximately equivalent to...
A fondness for roofs
Clarice and Cora are two halves of an insane echo-chamber - a pair of identical twins who need to get...
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