"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

— Mervyn Peake