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.

#AppendixN #MervynPeake #Gormenghast #TitusGroan

maladdress - tactlessness, awkwardness

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Steerpike straightforwardly presents himself as a talented apprentice to Dr. Prunesquallor.

#AppendixN #MervynPeake #Gormenghast #TitusGroan

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.

#AppendixN #Gormenghast #TitusGroan #MervynPeake #sff #sffbookclub

spilth - the material that was spilled

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. A candelabrum with sweeping arms of iron sends long stalactites of wax to the floor below.

#mervynpeake #titusgroan #gormenghast

paroxysm - a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. While most habitants of Gormenghast are subject to them, in this case the paroxysm belonged to Dr. Prunesquallor.

#appendixn #mervynpeake #gormenghast #titusgroan

[2000] Gormenghast - Serial based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. Starring Warren Mitchell, Celia Imrie, John Sessions, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Ian Richardson and Sean Hughes. First episode.

https://youtu.be/XSMqAdgcK_o

#OldBritishTelly #Gormenghast #MervynPeake

The peculiar pictures of Mervyn Peake, complete with an #EricSatie soundtrack. I know his drawings from the #Gormenghast trilogy, which are surely the finest Gothic fantasy novels ever written. I also have Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass with his illustrations.
#Drawing #MervynPeake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE8M_dSLzh0

1948 Folio Society edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, illustrated by Mervyn Peake #RLS #bookcover #illustration #MervynPeake