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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2019-05-12 02:37 pm
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something more brittle, more ancient, something dryer would emerge

It did not look as though such a bony face as his could give normal utterance, but rather that instead of sounds, something more brittle, more ancient, something dryer would emerge, something perhaps more in the nature of a splinter or a fragment of stone.


—Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan