
from Mr. Pye by Mervyn Peake
Failed Poet

from Mr. Pye by Mervyn Peake
Nobel prize-winning songwriter follows 17-minute Murder Most Foul with I Contain Multitudes, referencing everything from Edgar Allan Poe to William Blake and the Rolling Stones
not for nuthin, tho’ . . .
author has failed to recognize whitman quote in title:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Whitman, Song of Myself, # 51

i thot it was a sure winner, an inspiration:
end-papers for the book from an antique dictionary
just doesn’t work.