3 Mervyn Peake Quotes on Perception

Mervyn Peake quotes on perception

5. Each day I live in a glass room Unless I break it with the thrusting Of my senses and pass through The splintered walls to the great landscape.

10. When Uncle Jake Became a snake He never found it out; And so as no one mentions it One sees him still about.

15. Words were shapes and sounds to him. He saw them, as if he were listening to an unknown language, in shapes.