LordWoolamaloo · @LordWoolamaloo
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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.

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

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LordWoolamaloo · @LordWoolamaloo
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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.

#mervynpeake #titusgroan #livres #books #amreading #edimbourg #edinburgh

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LordWoolamaloo · @LordWoolamaloo
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"Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses..."

: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake, choice for the SF Book Group for July.
Haven't revisited this since my teens...

#fantasy #gornrnghast #titusgroan #mervynpeake #bookgroup #edinburghsfbookgroup #amreading #livres #books #edinburgh #lunchtimereading

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natalie · @paparatti
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Hot tips for weird fantasy kids: the DVD of the Gormenghast BBC adaptation is super cheap on eBay ($7-ish), and the trilogy is on sale for $3 for Kindle today.

amazon.com/Gormenghast-Trilogy

#books #reading #mervynpeake

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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Lining up our next weekend rewatch, with an episode a week. Next is the version of from 2000. Iโ€™ve been keen to rewatch this for a while. And while I know is developing a new version Iโ€™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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· @b_rain
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Eleanor Morton finally did it: In every of her vids about JJR Tolkien and CS Lewis she mentions Mervyn Peake, so i read about him now. Seems like he might be an interesting read!
yewtu.be/watch?v=k3sFzS-D5cU

#buchbubble #mervynpeake #cslewis #jrrtolkien #EleanorMorton

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David McK · @deemikay
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His painting of the same name - Sensitive, Seldom and Sad. In the novel, Steerpike describes a different painting next to the poem.

#mervynpeake

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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
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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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Christine Krause · @wallflower
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I've been looking for this quote for years. Finally.

"No, Alfred, I do not think. Thought is for mortals. I am a woman." Irma Prunesquallor, Gormenghast.

youtube.com/clip/UgkxWnHKnyDs_

#gormenghast #mervynpeake #fionashaw #johnsessions #bbc

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Dwinle · @Dwinle
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My take on Mr Pye. Wonderful book to read.

#mervynpeake #bookish

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