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16399717 No.16399717 [Reply] [Original]

Muzzlehatch is the most interesting character. If you didn't like Titus Alone you got filtered hard and should try to become more intelligent

>> No.16399942

>>16399717
>His mind fell asleep. His wits fell awake. His cock trembled like a harp-string.
What did he mean by this?

>> No.16400139
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16400139

>>16399717
what the fuck do you see in peake's prose? it goes on and on and on, paragraphs of the shite, eventually winding to the conclusion: he was sad because he was alone. why? why??

>> No.16400154

>>16399717
The last chapter of Titus Alone was worth the rest which I barely remembered at all except for the throne thing

>> No.16400191

>>16400139
His prose is the best part. You should be criticising his weak meandering plots if anything.

>> No.16400214
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16400214

Unironically name a more noble character in literature

>> No.16400272

>>16400214
anyone who doesn't look like this

>> No.16400442

I liked the Miyazaki influence. Very dark soulsian and a bit bloodborne too

>> No.16400600

>>16399717
Read the first two and stopped there. Are you saying I should actually read Titus Alone? Everyone advised me not to.

>> No.16400634

>>16400600
Unironically yes. It serves as an excellent counterweight to the philosophical themes of the first two novels, and it contains perhaps the greatest description of feminine evil (cf. Cheetah) ever recorded in the English language

>> No.16400811

>Irma>Fuschia>Clarice>Cora>Gertrude

>> No.16401228

>>16399717
>Titus Alone
>>16400191
>His prose is the best part.

Does not compute. Titus Alone is at best half-finished, loaded with incomplete descriptive passages which the earlier, healthy Peake, would have expanded on properly. There's no good reason to try to tease the book he might have written out of what he did.

>> No.16401467

>>16401228
Yes, Titus Alone is not peak Peake. I was responding to this dumb post though >>16400139

At best Titus Alone is a curiosity. Titus Groan and Gormenghast are enough.

>> No.16401640

>>16399717
I did in fact get filtered hard by Titus Alone, a few times in fact. The first two grabbed me basically immediately, I just felt lost for the like 50 pages of Alone.

>>16400214
I loved this guy. Can't believe how much depth these characters actually had. It's been a few years since I read the second book, but my favorite was the principal (?) who hung out with Titus when he was in trouble.