Mervyn Peake Quotes

Or On Retiring To Prunesquallors' He Might Take Down One Of The Doctor's Many Books And Read, For These Days A Passion To Accumulate Knowledge Of Any And Every Kind Consumed Him; But Only As A Means To An End. He Must Know All Things, For Only So Might He Have, When Situations Arose In The Future, A Full Pack Of Cards To Play From. He Imagined Himself Occasions When The Conversation Of One From Who He Foresaw Advancement Might Turn To Astronomy, Metaphysics, History, Chemistry, Or Literature, And He Realized That To Be Able To Drop Into The Argument A Lucid And Exact Thought, An Opinion Based On What Might *appear* To Be A Life-time Study, Would Instantaneously Gain More For Him Than Waiting Until The Conversation Turned Upon What Lay Within His Scope Of Experience.

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