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Finished Titus Groan. While the first novel of the trilogy is named for Titus and is bracketed by his birth, first birthday breakfast, and becoming earl, he is a quite minor character so far. On to Gormenghast.

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

sooo excited I still have like 500 pages to be lost in

The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.

p.395/978. Book Two. Three.

p.393/978. Book Two. Two.

'I am free,' she said. 'I am home again.' But directly she had said these words she knew it was not so. She was home, yes, among the dwellings where she was born. Here beside her, like an ancient friend, stood the gaunt cactus, but of the friends of her childhood who were left?