repetition/distract

Teynkirche in der Altstadt von Prag, Karel Plicka (via feuilleton)

“Within the first hour from the time when he had awakened, he had descended a long sloping roof, after dropping nine feet from the parapet and had then come up upon a small, winding stone staircase which led him across a gap between two high walls to where a cluster of conical roofs forced him to make a long and hazardous circuit. Arriving at last at the opposite side of the cluster, faint and dizzy with fatigue and emptiness and with the heat of the strengthening sun, he saw spread out before him in mountainuous facades a crumbling panorama, a roofscape of Gormenghast, its crags and its stark walls of cliff pocked with nameless windows. Steerpike for a moment lost heart, finding himself in a region as barren as the moon, and he became suddenly desperate in his weakness, and falling on his knees retched violently.”

Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan