As huge as …
Mervyn Peake is a fount of original similes and metaphors. Given the granite-gothic ambiance of Gormenghast, it makes sense that...
A milliner’s invention
Again, the charming Swelter, whose every move is offensive to one sense or another. See, for example, the sound of...
Reasoning in vain
A convincing form of fruitlessness, as it's hard to imagine a pious vulture. The sister in question is an awkward...
Fuchsia and ruby
A gift from the eccentric but kind-hearted and protective physician to the young daughter of the Earl and Countess of...
Dark and small
What a powerful simile, conveying something inward-turning and dangerous through its vivid portrayal of cranial size as a small, corroded...
Good strong tea
A novel way to signal strong tea, its being so solid that it can support a mouse's weight. The more...
As expressionless as …
Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy is packed with original metaphor and simile. In Titus Groan, the first book, I noted two...
Foxy fickle
Foxes have had a bad press due to their apparent wiliness. Â Whether justified or not, this alliterative allusion deserves to...
A sky of rags
A marvelous view of a heavily clouded sky; you can imagine vast firmament rags being saturated with water by a...
Moss-gloved trees
Years of dripping rain from these moss-soft trees, in an endlessly dank, chill climate, has tanned the leather of a...
Rain-thrashed pools
Gormenghast is made for storms and this one allows Steerpike to further insinuate himself into the life of the castle....
Ballooning abdomen
Flay and Swelter, pitched in a life and death struggle, are at physically opposite extremes - Flay, wiry, knobbly, skinny,...
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