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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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.
https://www.amazon.com/Gormenghast-Trilogy-Mervyn-Peake-ebook/dp/B07NHZVF5T/
Lining up our next weekend rewatch, with an episode a week. Next is the #BBC version of #Gormenghast from 2000. Iโve been keen to rewatch this for a while. And while I know #NeilGaiman is developing a new version Iโd like to see this one again now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197154/ #MervynPeake #Television #00sTV #Fantasy #Horror #Weird #JonathanRhysMeyers #TVadaptations
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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
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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!
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=k3sFzS-D5cU
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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.
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.
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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.
#APoemADay #APoemADayFromDeemikay #MervynPeake #Gormenghast #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
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@lilycarol #CharlesPortis #BarbaraPym #FernandoPessoa #AlexanderMcCallSmith #JRRTolkien #MervynPeake #HarukiMurakami #JaneAusten #FyodorDostoevsky #TerryPratchett โwait, how many? Anyway those are some of my faves <3
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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.
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https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxWnHKnyDs_s6CPz5_2K1WJ8z_DCBWbfJv
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