This novel's protagonist receives advice from Mr. Barbecue-Smith on how to write by tapping into his subconscious and later realizes that his love for Anne is the object of ridicule when he discovers caricatures drawn by the nearly deaf Jenny.  
This novel features a character that eats 10,400 peaches in order to donate the stones to the military, as well as a man who relates the story of Sir Hercules and his wife, a dwarf couple who commit suicide after they learn that their normal-height son plans to make them dance drunkenly for his friends.  In another scene, it is revealed that the towers were constructed so that their builder, Sir Fernando Lapith, might defecate nearer to God.  This novel's protagonist receives advice from Mr. Barbecue-Smith on how to write by tapping into his subconscious and later realizes that his love for Anne is the object of ridicule when he discovers caricatures drawn by the nearly deaf Jenny.  All of these characters have been invited to visit the home of Henry Wimbush in, for 10 points, what novel centering on Denis Stone's visit to the titular estate, a work by Aldous Huxley.
This novel features a character that eats 10,400 peaches in order to donate the stones to the military, as well as a man who relates the story of Sir Hercules and his wife, a dwarf couple who commit suicide after they learn that their normal-height son plans to make them dance drunkenly for his friends.  
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