Happy 100th Birthday, Mervyn Peake!!

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From Mar 14, 2011

The celebration started a little early for me, since my copies of "Titus Awakes" and "Mr. Pye" arrived in the mail recently. I've finished reading "Titus Awakes" already, and I'll post a review of it shortly. (As well as reviews of the two vastly different biographies of "Merv", which I'll be punting onto gormenghastfans) One thing I will say is that it is clearly a labor of love on the part of Maeve Gilmore, and while she might not have a full grasp of Merv's verbal painting or acrobatics, she has a firm grasp of the characters and the ideas and to me that really is what matters; and there's a odd bit of meta she wove into the narrative, which I'll elaborate when I post the full review.

I'm also going to be re-rewatching the BBC miniseries tonight and/or tomorrow night (time permitting). Headspace commentary to come, as the headspace dwellers, particularly Titus of course are Really Loud today.

Also, I wish I could get time zones down pat as the BBC Radio is supposed to be rebroadcasting the 1950s radio version of Gormenghast, which will be aired online as well. Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll burn it onto CD as they've done with other classic radio shows.