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

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.

#books #AmReading #livres #Gormenghast #TitusGroan #MervynPeake

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

Lining up our next weekend rewatch, with an episode a week. Next is the #BBC version of #Gormenghast from 2000. I’ve been keen to rewatch this for a while. And while I know #NeilGaiman is developing a new version I’d like to see this one again now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197154/ #MervynPeake #Television #00sTV #Fantasy #Horror #Weird #JonathanRhysMeyers #TVadaptations

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

An #appendixnwordoftheday 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.

#ttrpg #rpg #logophile #fantasy #gormenghast

I am (slowly) reading (savouring) the #Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn #Peake, whose richness of imagination & language is astonishing. So dear reader, where does one finds such immense creativity in #mathematics ?

[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

@Homebrewandhacking @harriettmb @Lazarou

It was a #Gormenghast rip off too.

Mervyn Peake would have been livid.

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: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-launch-73463520. 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

@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 #Gormenghast slip-case (which I didn’t know existed). #LordoftheRings #BallantineAdultFantasy #VintagePaperbacks

Un enigma letterario: la trilogia di Gormenghast https://www.carmillaonline.com/2023/01/17/un-enigma-letterario-prime-riflessioni-sul-tito-di-gormenghast-di-mervyn-peake/ #Ilsignoredeglianelli #TitodiGormenghast #AnthonyBurgess #RobertoCalasso #J.R.R.Tolkien #SamuelBeckett #ElisabettaII #TerradiMezzo #Gormenghast #MervynPeake #Interventi #Recensioni #FranzKafka #TitusGroan #tradizione #conflitto #Lovecraft #Sinistra #Adelphi #Dickens #fantasy #Ionesco #Destra #gotico #hobbit #legge #Bene #Male

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

En el círculo de estudio de #Fantasía hemos decidido leer la novela de Titus Groan, perteneciente a la trilogía de #Gormenghast, 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.

Avete ancora letto la trilogia di #gormenghast
Che aspettate? ^^

#Gormenghast #art

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.

#APoemADay #APoemADayFromDeemikay #MervynPeake #Gormenghast #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

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.

#APoemADay #APoemADayFromDeemikay #MervynPeake #Gormenghast #Poetry #PoetryCommunity