The tremendous gulf between the sexes yawned-and an abyss, terrifying and thrilling, sheer and black as the arbour in which they sat; a darkness wide, dangerous, imponderable and littered with the wrecks of broken bridges. (Mervyn Peake)

The tremendous gulf between the sexes yawned-and an abyss, terrifying and thrilling, sheer and black as the arbour in which they sat; a darkness wide, dangerous, imponderable and littered with the wrecks of broken bridges.

Mervyn Peake

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