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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2019-06-07 02:54 pm
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lead and sugar

The habitual truculence of his tone and manner had today altered to something mealy, to a conviviality weighted with lead and sugar, a ghastly intimacy more dreadful than his most dreaded rages.


—Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan