Ahh... If you have never read Gormenghast...A celebration of the writing & art of Mervyn Peake | via The Guardian

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And darkness," Peake says a few lines on from his reintroduction of Titus, "winds between the characters." It does, and it winds into each of them, and winds them together, too. One might say the same about the work of any black-nib-wielding illustrator. But the point is not only that Peake drew his own imaginings so brilliantly, it is that there is something specific about that brilliance. It is the manner in which, in his art, he captures intricacy and austerity. It is this that makes the claim of an elective affinity between his words and his images more than a tendentious fancy...

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