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Dave J.
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"So Juno returned to her home, and it was true that it had already become a place of echoes, shadows, voices; moments of pause and suspense; moments of vague suffering or dwindling laughter...moments of acute nostalgia where she stood all unwittingly at a window in a haze of stars; or of sweetness hardly to be borne when the shadow of Titus came between her and the sun as it rose through the slanting rain."
— Aug 22, 2025 07:46AM
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Dave J.
is on page 223 of 224
What an experience this trilogy has been. I can't believe it's over. But thankfully there are still more of Peake's books to check out (as well as the fourth novel in Gormenghast put together by Peake's widow, Maeve Gilmore.)
— Aug 29, 2025 04:05PM
Dave J.
is on page 201 of 224
"Such a sensation can become too powerful for the human body. It is as easy to control as a sliding avalanche. It takes a sacrosanct convention and snaps it in half as though it were a stick. It lifts up some holy relic and throws it at the sun. It is laughter. Laughter when it stamps its feet; when it sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter with the pips of Eden in it."
— Aug 27, 2025 01:34PM
Dave J.
is on page 113 of 224
"A primordial love for his birth-place, a love which survived and grew, for all that he had left his home, for all that he was a traitor, burned in him with a ferocity that he could not understand. All he knew was that as he stared at the spider-man, he, Titus, began to age. A cloud had passed over his heart. He was not so much in the thick of an adventure as alone with something that smelt of death."
— Aug 17, 2025 06:35AM
Dave J.
is on page 56 of 224
This is starting to remind me of Gulliver's Travels (specifically the 90's miniseries -- I haven't read the book yet), which is just about as absurd iirc. This third book may not be as good as the first two, but it's entertaining so far.
— Aug 02, 2025 10:05PM
