![]() ![]() Titus’ sister Fuchsia, is used to being an only child but would never had had the Earldom granted to her, but she must now learn to cope with a brother and lessening attention. Titus is born into this world around the same time as a young kitchen hand, Steerpike, decides he’s had enough of his lot and plots to get ahead in life. When the Earl requests to meet his son for the first time, a full on trek seems to take place just to walk between rooms.įor the Groans, change is unheard of and life in the castle is run strictly by predetermined traditions. Often a sense of scale is hard to convey through words, but I could really imagine the vastness of the castle and its grounds. Peake is excellent at painting a picture in the reader’s head. The world of Gormenghast is gothic and surreal with a heavy emphasis on nature being a shaping force. Tiresome in the extreme for all those present, it would be hardly less tedious for the reader to be obliged to suffer the long catalogue of Breakfast ritual. ![]() The eating is done spasmodically whenever a gap of time appears between the endless formalities and ornate procedures which Barquentine sets in motion at the correct time-honoured moments. ![]()
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