Gormenghast Book 1: Titus Groan
It's a book filled with fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles!
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Gormenghast Book 1: Titus Groan
It's a book filled with fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles!
https://chasingdings.com/2025/10/31/gormenghast-book-1-titus-groan/
I don’t think I ever finished all of the books; it just ground me down! 😔
rostrum - a raised platform on which a person stands to make a public speech, receive and award or conduct an orchestra
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Chef Swelter drunkenly addresses his apprentices.
maladdress - tactlessness, awkwardness
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Steerpike straightforwardly presents himself as a talented apprentice to Dr. Prunesquallor.
ruff - a projecting starched frill worn around the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan or Jacobean costume
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. A playful white rook in Lady Groan's bedchambers pecks at its tail, causing the feathers around its neck to stand up.
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Errands run, time to relax. Nice pint of Jarl and a read in the local.
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Today's travelling companions: Mervyn Peake, with the god-like John Coltrane playing Crescent on my headphones.
Finding my revisit to Gormenghast & its stultifying rituals particularly interesting in light of our own recent royal ceremonial nonsense.
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A little al-fresco reading break before heading home. Forecast for thunder and rain tomorrow, may as well enjoy the fine weather while it lasts, read in sunlight, with breeze by the water & sound of birdsong.
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"Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses..."
#LunchtimeReading : Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake, choice for the #Edinburgh SF Book Group for July.
Haven't revisited this since my teens...
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