tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post6783485534457303000..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: The Dover Beach Expanded Universepjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-74181592387295090112021-11-22T16:03:26.103-08:002021-11-22T16:03:26.103-08:00Very much enjoyed reading this, and now want to go...Very much enjoyed reading this, and now want to go back to the books, and finally get around to finishing Titus Alone.<br /><br />Oddly enough, despite all of the incredibly vivid and singular aspects to the Gormenghast books, one of the main things I remember whenever I think of them is "that's where I learned (along with Titus) what the word 'isthmus' means". Odd things, brains.dansumptionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06403248887250857638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-50112977029337045282021-10-27T21:03:06.705-07:002021-10-27T21:03:06.705-07:00I didn’t think about this until now, but if Gormen...I didn’t think about this until now, but if Gormenghast the Medieval Kingdom exists in the same world as the pseudo-modern sci-fi culture Titus walks to, and they are simply separated by such incredibly vast distances of wilderness that only a lone madman can make the trek from one to the other……. clearly I have to add the trilogy to my list of Dreamland booksJason & Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08382538007150266805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-60108595774260955872021-10-23T12:42:46.767-07:002021-10-23T12:42:46.767-07:00Not too interested in doing so
"In 1992 Over...Not too interested in doing so<br /><br />"In 1992 Overlook Press, the American publishers of the Gormenghast series, printed at the end of Titus Alone the existing coherent portions of Mervyn Peake's Titus Awakes, with a brief introduction by John Watney.[1] They consist of three pages from which it is clear that, although Titus has left Gormenghast, the castle remains active in his memory and important in the story. Although Peake wrote further passages, the editors were unable to decipher them.[3]"<br /><br />Seems like Titus Awakes is largely his wifes work,pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-22810763764770618102021-10-23T12:41:44.075-07:002021-10-23T12:41:44.075-07:00The ruin is waay off in the wildernss and even Che...The ruin is waay off in the wildernss and even Cheeta has to dig up one of the explorers who originally found it. Seems since that discovery the people of the city simply didn't care about it at all, which fits a bit more with post-apoc or maybe post cultural revolution situationpjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-30966692216134660072021-10-23T11:36:08.220-07:002021-10-23T11:36:08.220-07:00(But otherwise, lovely insightful commentary.)(But otherwise, lovely insightful commentary.)David Haraldsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226110545192539855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-70035323668189052392021-10-23T11:35:41.003-07:002021-10-23T11:35:41.003-07:00You still need to read Titus Awakes by Mervyn Peak...You still need to read Titus Awakes by Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore, shurely?<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_AwakesDavid Haraldsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226110545192539855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-33108408837211291752021-10-23T05:28:11.287-07:002021-10-23T05:28:11.287-07:00Harold Pinter-robocops is a phrase I must put to u...Harold Pinter-robocops is a phrase I must put to use somewhere. <br /><br />Nadsat-spouting protagonist and memetic reputation aside, the background of A Clockwork Orange probably sits in the Dover Beach Expanded Universe. (Published 1962, rather out of the ordinary line for Burgess).<br /><br />The 2010s radio adaptation of Gormenghast (The History of Titus Groan) got as far as Titus Alone. Muzzlehatch was played in sardonic, glowering mood by Gerard Murphy. <br /><br />There is of course the shining Barbican modernist future, but apparently Cheeta et al can lay their hands on an ancient mouldering barn for the final masquerade. So there's some tattered remnant of rural life reserved for the elites?Solomon VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763252777153908412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-40772767616902925202021-10-22T05:09:12.872-07:002021-10-22T05:09:12.872-07:00The Event is like Jaws. It's never seen, barel...The Event is like Jaws. It's never seen, barely talked about, always in the periphery, and it is all the more terrible and fearsome for it. Spwackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07247063374457045751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-57199401994494131372021-10-21T07:32:50.330-07:002021-10-21T07:32:50.330-07:00I picked up the Gormenghast novels after reading y...I picked up the Gormenghast novels after reading your blog, read the first one so far, excited to get to the second soon. <br /><br />The novels are not easy to read, but very beautiful and VERY painterly. Thick with MANNERSSelf Portrait as a Gianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17548497797378537381noreply@blogger.com