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Published: 2011-09-25 08:00:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1434; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 19
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Fuschia, from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. Gauche, childlike, temperamental, awkward, secretive, strange...drawn about a year ago, looking startled and angry at having found an intruder in her precious attic...
graphite on cartridge paper.
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Comments: 4
I don't know the story (yet)
I love the hair a lot!!!
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oh, I'd recommend those books to anyone - Peake's such a human and absorbing writer.
At least if you're like me, and are happy to be drowned in endless, unhurried description.
And yes, her hair's pretty notable - a wild black mane that Peake says hangs "like a pirates' flag" down her back.
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the first time i read the trilogy, fuschia was easily my favourite character ..
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She's easy to love, I think... That passage about her and her attic, when we first see the place, is easily among my favourite passages in fiction.
I was so heartbroken after both she and Steerpike died that I couldn't bring myself to read the third book for ages...
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