Jake Mix · @jakemix
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rostrum - a raised platform on which a person stands to make a public speech, receive and award or conduct an orchestra

from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Chef Swelter drunkenly addresses his apprentices.

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #AppendixN #MervynPeake #gormenghast #titusgroan

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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maladdress - tactlessness, awkwardness

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

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #AppendixN #MervynPeake #gormenghast #titusgroan

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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ruff - a projecting starched frill worn around the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan or Jacobean costume

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.

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #AppendixN #gormenghast #titusgroan #MervynPeake #sff #sffbookclub

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LordWoolamaloo · @LordWoolamaloo
751 followers · 2645 posts · Server mastodon.scot

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.

#mervynpeake #titusgroan #gormenghast #livres #amreading #books

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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spilth - the material that was spilled

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

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #MervynPeake #titusgroan #gormenghast

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
810 followers · 1156 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Lining up our next weekend rewatch, with an episode a week. Next is the version of from 2000. I’ve been keen to rewatch this for a while. And while I know is developing a new version I’d like to see this one again now. imdb.com/title/tt0197154/

#tvadaptations #jonathanrhysmeyers #weird #horror #fantasy #00stv #television #mervynpeake #neilgaiman #gormenghast #bbc

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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paroxysm - a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity

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

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #AppendixN #MervynPeake #gormenghast #titusgroan

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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An from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan:

lacuna - an unfilled space, a gap; also, a missing portion of a book or manuscript

Not an original Appendix N work, but Gormenghast is a perfect fit and certainly on my personal list.

#appendixnwordoftheday #ttrpg #rpg #logophile #fantasy #gormenghast

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Nalini Joshi · @monsoon0
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I am (slowly) reading (savouring) the trilogy by Mervyn , whose richness of imagination & language is astonishing. So dear reader, where does one finds such immense creativity in ?

#mathematics #peake #gormenghast

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Old British Telly · @oldbritishtelly
3422 followers · 3183 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

[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.

youtu.be/XSMqAdgcK_o

#OldBritishTelly #gormenghast #MervynPeake

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Geri · @Gerz
931 followers · 1645 posts · Server mastodon.world

@Homebrewandhacking @harriettmb @Lazarou

It was a rip off too.

Mervyn Peake would have been livid.

#gormenghast

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Jeff Lilly · @druidjournal
132 followers · 391 posts · Server mastodon.social

Experimenting with AI art for my fanfic. Here we have Gormenghast castle and the ancient Saxon wizard who's been holed up in it for over a thousand years.

(Fanfic available here: patreon.com/posts/patreon-laun. It's not really Gormenghast fanfic -- they're more of a cameo before the real Harry Potter / Oz crossover action begins. :) )

#aiart #fanfiction #gormenghast #harrypotter #oz #patreon #fantasyart

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HangFireBooks · @HangFireBooks
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@kekw Are you a collector? I’ve been accumulating firsts for decades (but still have a long way to go). My best find sorta lately was the slip-case (which I didn’t know existed).

#gormenghast #lordoftherings #ballantineadultfantasy #vintagepaperbacks

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Fardels Bear · @riggbeck
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The peculiar pictures of Mervyn Peake, complete with an soundtrack. I know his drawings from the 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.

youtube.com/watch?v=QE8M_dSLzh

#ericsatie #gormenghast #drawing #MervynPeake

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En el círculo de estudio de hemos decidido leer la novela de Titus Groan, perteneciente a la trilogía de , me encantó el inicio, porque lo primero que hace es presentarnos el entorno-mundo donde se desarrollará la historia, así que el lugar ya se siente como un espacio muy vivo, como un personaje más. Les comparto el incio.

#fantasia #gormenghast

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Paolo Beneforti · @paolobeneforti
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Avete ancora letto la trilogia di
Che aspettate? ^^

#gormenghast

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Paolo Beneforti · @paolobeneforti
87 followers · 216 posts · Server mastodon.uno

#art #gormenghast

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David McK · @deemikay
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A different version of this appears in one of the early chapters Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy (Chp 23 of Titus Groan). This version I found in his Collected Nonsense and it totally rocks teenage goth mopiness.

A Peake painting of these three characters in the comments below.

#poetrycommunity #poetry #gormenghast #mervynpeake #apoemadayfromdeemikay #apoemaday

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David McK · @deemikay
242 followers · 445 posts · Server mastodon.scot

A different version of this appears in one of the early chapters Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy (Chp 23 of Titus Groan). This version I found in his Collected Nonsense and it totally rocks teenage goth mopiness.

A Peake painting of these three characters in the comments below.

#poetrycommunity #poetry #gormenghast #mervynpeake #apoemadayfromdeemikay #apoemaday

Last updated 2 years ago