abstract art by m.c. escher, gormenghast, a monstrous impossible castle, the tower patched unevenly with black ivy arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven, at nights the owls made of it an echoing throat by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow, over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons the shadows of time, eaten buttresses of broken and lofty turrets and most enormous of all the shadow of the tower of flints, a ponderous architectural impossibility