- 5/28/2025
#casanova #romeoandjuliet #thescapegoat
Steerpike's secret machinations begin to throw Gormenghast into chaos and madness, threatening the reign of the future Earl Titus. Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Celia Imrie, Ian Richardson, Neve McIntosh, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths.
Steerpike's secret machinations begin to throw Gormenghast into chaos and madness, threatening the reign of the future Earl Titus. Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Celia Imrie, Ian Richardson, Neve McIntosh, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths.
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00:00Hold fast to the law of the last cold tome, Where the earth of the truth lies thick upon
00:16the page, And the loam of faith in the ink-clogged fled
00:24From the drone of the nib of blow-saw, Till the last of the first depart,
00:35The least of the past is dust, And the dust, the dust is lost,
00:49Hold fast, human dust, human dust.
01:08Congratulations, my ladies. You've never been braver or more brilliant.
01:12Will we get our coaches? Of course. But you must do as I've told you.
01:16Will we get our thrones? You will have everything.
01:19Now go back to your apartments and wait.
01:28Hero's stairway.
01:31As I say, Master Secretary, this day, two months hence,
01:37my lady, the bird, I say, nurse, the child, I want a breakfast for him.
01:47It's as simple as that. He is my son, isn't he?
01:51You hungry, my little love?
01:53The time chosen, Lordship, is when we should be celebrating the laureate.
01:57The poet can wait. Why is everybody so old?
02:00The solstice. The solstice. The solstice. The solstice.
02:04The solstice. Can't. Neither, therefore, can the consecration of the moon.
02:10Oh, my dear. Clearly scheduled for that day by rote and moon.
02:15What's wrong with your sister?
02:17It's a case of atmosphere, as far as I can judge at very short notice, your ladyship.
02:21Smoke, smoke.
02:23Flay, open the door. I think the matter is settled, Mr. Secretary.
02:27As this gathering was sanctioned without recourse to me,
02:30I shall consider its conclusions to be nothing more than an aberration.
02:34It shall go unnoted, unrecorded, and unrepeated.
02:38Door locked, Lordship. Locked, therefore, the door's locked.
02:43Like a bird, my dear, flying high out of the smoke.
02:48Mrs. Slagg, kindly convey his minute lordship to the door and hold his mouth to the keyhole.
02:54Keyhole? I never heard of such a thing.
02:56Where's my rock? It's getting thicker. What are we going to do, Dr. Proulx?
03:00Is there another door, lordship? Locked for years. I don't know where it is.
03:04Then could we breach the original, battery and assault, that kind of thing?
03:08Flay! Oak, lordship. Four-inch.
03:12Flay!
03:15Slagg! Take his young master to the door, as I told you.
03:20Oh, we're going to be shot by Flame Jaffer.
03:23Damn gathering! This is what you get for unprecedented breakfast!
03:29Flame! My library!
03:33Slagg!
03:34I am the keyhole!
03:36My book! My book!
03:45Alfred!
03:47Ever my humiliating sister, please sit down. Alfred will do the rest.
03:52We're going to die!
03:54Oh, sit down! Damn you!
03:57Lady Peter, be so good as to see that Mrs. Slagg keeps tigers by the door.
04:02Father! Is that you?
04:04It is. Or rather, prune squalor, which is, if I may say so, more strictly correct.
04:09Quiet, man! Smash a window!
04:11Yes, your ladyship.
04:13Dr. Proulx, over here. It's Mrs. Slagg.
04:16Now, ladyship, the baby. Hold him to the keyhole.
04:19No, no, no. Lie still.
04:21There's air beneath the door.
04:23Yes. Lie still.
04:25Lie still.
04:26Yes, Doctor.
04:27Flame!
04:28Mr. Flame, where is the largest window?
04:30North wall.
04:32Can't reach it. No balcony.
04:35Alfred!
04:37No, ladyship. Give me the child. Give me the child.
04:40Now, find your father and ask him to throw his cane at the window.
04:45Is that you, Peter? Where's Master George?
04:48Damn the bird!
04:50Find your father and tell him to smash the glass.
04:53What do you say, squalor? Come here.
04:55My books. My books.
04:57Father, the doctor said your cane, Father.
05:01Mr. Flame, Dr. Proulx, the secretary's on fire. He's burning.
05:05Here. Hold your son.
05:07Mr. Flame.
05:09My books. My books.
05:12Leave him, Flame.
05:14Take your master's cane and throw it at the window.
05:18My books.
05:20Throw it, man.
05:22Not heavy enough, madam.
05:24Paperweight on the table. Find it.
05:27Throw the paperweight.
05:28Where? I can't find it.
05:29Well, then, climb the shelves to the window and smash it with your father's cane.
05:34Well, help her, Mr. Flame.
05:36Master George. Master George.
05:39Master George.
05:42Alfred, I'm your sister.
05:45Keep steady. Just keep steady.
05:47Flame, hand her ladyship the cane.
05:49She can reach the window from there.
05:51Oh, my God, Flame.
05:53Get on.
05:56My books.
06:00My books.
06:05Hold your horses. I'm letting down the ladder.
06:08My books. My books.
06:13Where's my bird? Where is he?
06:16Wait.
06:18Master George.
06:20Where is he?
06:21Here. Take him.
06:23Take him out of here.
06:25Out of here.
06:27Hold him.
06:29Flame.
06:31Mrs. Flame.
06:35Good man, Flame. Good man.
06:38Come now, Mrs. Flame. First the left foot.
06:40Then the right.
06:42Your young ladyship.
06:43Thank you, Dr. Drew.
06:44It must be you, your ladyship.
06:45We shall speak, Squalor. You've done my bird.
06:48Come, squirming sister, my lady.
06:50Time to breathe the air.
06:52And you. You, sir.
06:54Mr. Secretary.
06:59Lordship. Lordship.
07:01My books. My books.
07:05My books.
07:11Let me help you, my lord.
07:12No, not you.
07:13My books. My books.
07:21My books. My books.
07:24My books. My books.
07:29My books. My books.
07:32My books. My books.
07:42My son?
07:43You said, the boy.
07:45My son. Where is my son?
07:48You said, bring the boy, lordship, the rescuer.
07:52It's him.
07:55I meant my son, not him.
07:58I said, I want my son.
08:00You'll see your son for his damned breakfast. Get out.
08:04It was a great privilege to have you, my lord.
08:05I said, out!
08:07Standing grimacing like a red-arsed baboon. Get out!
08:11Thank you, lordship.
08:12I say, the iron rule. No change.
08:15Who was that?
08:16No more damned gatherings.
08:19I am chosen to be celebrating the laureate.
08:23By the root, the way of the stone.
08:27Would you care to take the air of the day, lordship?
08:30Damned library, damned breakfast.
08:34None of this should have happened.
08:36Doctor.
08:37Lordship.
08:38Who...
08:42Who burnt my books?
08:45They will all look at us at the breakfast.
08:48Because we're of the original blood.
08:50And because we're perfect.
08:53Why don't you knock?
08:55I beg pardon, your ladyships.
08:57Where's our thrones? You said we'd have them when we'd done the burning.
09:01Every successful revolution has its own pace, your ladyships.
09:05Too slow, you rot. Too fast, you fail.
09:08Slow? Rot? Fast? What?
09:11Don't rush.
09:12Power must have secure foundations.
09:16Do you want your coaches?
09:18Your servants?
09:19Our thrones.
09:20Do you want them for a weekend?
09:22And then have to give them back?
09:23We'll never give them back.
09:24Because we haven't got them.
09:26Not yet.
09:27But you will.
09:31Why don't you listen to me?
09:32Haven't I helped you?
09:34Look how far you've come already.
09:37Don't you trust me?
09:40Do you want me to go away?
09:42I can. I can go any time you want me to.
09:44He told us to burn, didn't he?
09:46We can tell them what he said.
09:48We can say.
09:50Thrones!
09:51I have no doubt which one you'll choose.
09:53It is unique in a whole history of thrones.
09:57That one.
09:58How right you are.
10:00I shall see the goldsmith in the morning.
10:01I want mine soon.
10:02So do I.
10:03Ladies, why insult me?
10:05Why insult yourselves?
10:08These are objects of art.
10:10They take time.
10:13What?
10:14Do you want to be considered laughingstocks?
10:17Sitting on great big yellow stools?
10:21If you want the best, you have to wait.
10:23Wait?
10:24Did he say wait?
10:25I don't think we'll wait.
10:26I think we'll tell them what he said.
10:28You will wait.
10:30And you will sit down and wait.
10:32And any more talk of burning and you will be hanged.
10:35Hanged.
10:36From your tree at the castle wall with the hangman's rope.
10:40I will see to it personally.
10:42Do you understand me?
10:45Good.
10:47Now you will have your thrones.
10:49They will be the finest ever made.
10:51All you have to do is listen to me.
10:54Now go to the breakfast as you have been invited as part of the family.
10:58Keep your mouths shut.
11:00Do you understand?
11:03You shall have it all.
11:04Gormenghast.
11:07All of it.
11:08All yours.
11:11Now.
11:13What do you say?
11:17One by one.
11:20We shall stock another three tonight.
11:23This is where the poets will be.
11:27The philosophers over there, I think.
11:30Takes much thought to build a library.
11:34How many have we done so far?
11:36Seven shelves, father.
11:37Then three more, child, three more.
11:39Yes, father.
11:42That's it, that's it.
11:44Now we have space for the Sonean poets.
11:47Have you the books ready?
11:49I've collected them here.
11:59Who are you?
12:02I'm your daughter.
12:09I have a son.
12:12I know that.
12:15He is...
12:17...Titus.
12:20He will be Earl of Gormenghast...
12:24...when I am dead.
12:26He is my brother.
12:30And so you are my daughter, are you?
12:38What's your name?
12:41Fuchsia.
12:44Fuchsia.
12:48I don't think I know Fuchsia.
12:52Do I?
12:55Do I know you, Fuchsia?
12:59Fuchsia.
13:02I suppose we don't know each other that well,
13:04but I should very much like to know you better.
13:09How would you?
13:16Yes, I see.
13:20The books, then, Fuchsia.
13:30Here are the poets you asked for.
13:32Shall I start putting them on the first long shelf for you?
13:36The poets.
13:38Ah, yes, the poets.
13:41We should never have had the poets.
13:46They tell us, you see.
13:50Their pen is the pulse, Fuchsia.
13:54Their voice is the bell.
13:57Their words...
14:00...travel down...
14:04...and down...
14:08...and...
14:10...on...
14:13...and on...
14:16...and to nothing...
14:19...and on...
14:22...and on...
14:24...and on...
14:26...into such nothing...
14:28...and nothing...
14:30...and nothing.
14:31Father, the books!
14:34No!
14:42No, no, no, no, no!
14:44Father, please!
14:46I can't bear it!
14:49Please!
15:03I think you've made a mistake.
15:13You are not my daughter.
15:16How could you be?
15:20Come here and I'll tell you.
15:23Come, come.
15:28I am not your father.
15:33You see, I live up there.
15:37You see, I am the death owl.
16:07I am the death owl.
16:37My little precious.
17:00Good night, Mr. Flea.
17:08It won't be long before I go, little one.
17:11It's nearly my time.
17:14Feel your little sister.
17:16She's moving.
17:18Flea.
17:21You'll learn from her things you'll never learn here.
17:24I promise you.
17:29I hate it here.
17:31They won't have me down outside, will they?
17:34I hate them, too.
17:36She's better than all of them.
17:38And she's better than you, too.
17:40Though you'll never admit it.
17:44Sleep well, little boy.
17:47Dream of her.
17:54It's time, wasn't it?
17:56That's his laundry. It's kitchen bell.
17:58It's not sunrise.
18:00It's not time.
18:02It's not sunrise.
18:03It's not time for the breakfast.
18:05What's he want to go and ring his bell for
18:07in the middle of the night?
18:12What?
18:14Breakfast?
18:15We haven't even done the quail's leg yet.
18:17What's he playing at?
18:22Oi!
18:23Slugs!
18:24Get up!
18:26Move!
18:29Father!
18:44Lordship?
18:49Lordship?
18:55Lordship?
18:58Lordship?
19:03Lordship?
19:06Lordship?
19:15Lordship?
19:19Lordship?
19:21Father?
19:23Father?
19:25Father, stop doing that!
19:27Please listen.
19:29I love you.
19:31Oh!
19:32Oh, fart!
19:34This is not for you.
19:35Back to vile kitchen!
19:37Chef!
19:38Chef!
19:39Have you set your traps?
19:45Traps, sir?
19:46Traps.
19:47Are you deaf?
19:48Are they full?
19:50Or have the cats got them?
19:53My traps?
19:55No, no, no.
19:56The cats are out for the night.
19:58What are you waiting for?
20:00Bring me a mouse.
20:03Twigs.
20:04Every kind.
20:06I intend to study the twig as one should.
20:10Study and build.
20:14A nest, you idiot.
20:23Doctor, can you do something?
20:25Yes, take this.
20:29Lordship?
20:31May I be of assistance?
20:33May I be of help, Doctor?
20:35I heard the bell.
20:37Who are you?
20:38It's dear Pike, Lordship, my assistant.
20:41Talk to him, boy. Get his attention.
20:44I assist the Doctor in his dispensary, sir.
20:49You may remember me from the library.
20:53The library?
20:55My library!
20:59No!
21:01I told you, dear Pike, not with a red lip!
21:03Now, handle him carefully.
21:05Do not rattle his panda.
21:09A wing. Give me the wing.
21:11What?
21:12Arm!
21:13His arm, boy.
21:16Careful.
21:21That was quick work, Doctor.
21:23What chemical was that?
21:25I'm in no mood for the pharmaceutical, Master, dear Pike.
21:28Mr. Flay, hot water, wash and brush. Get him dressed for the breakfast.
21:31Breakfast, sir?
21:32Yes, and why not?
21:34Lordship is as Lordship does.
21:36Will he be able to go?
21:38We'll do our best, my little friend.
21:41My dear chef, why do you look so blue?
21:44I will prepare the breakfast as you say, Doctor.
21:48Good.
21:49Soon, Mr. Flay.
21:54Oh, Doctor, why is everything going so wrong?
22:02Nothing!
22:07Nothing!
22:10And you, have you never seen a fork before?
22:12He goes here, here.
22:15How can I be expected to lay the table for a feast that isn't in the damn book?
22:23And will the ass come?
22:25Having put us through all this, will the ass come?
22:28Thinks he's a bird.
22:30You, you can button your lip, arsewipe.
22:33Anything I say here is not for repetition by the likes of you.
22:36Do you understand? Damn breakfast!
22:39My husband is now an owl, Master Chalk.
22:44I'd say it was an improvement.
22:46Ladyship, is in his lavender velvet, ladyship.
22:52So what?
22:54Well, I've never done a breakfast, ladyship.
22:57The secretary of Barking Town said lavender for his smallness.
23:02So why are you asking me?
23:04Go in.
23:05Yes, ladyship.
23:06Wait.
23:08I know this is difficult for you.
23:10But I want you to try and answer a simple question.
23:13Ladyship.
23:14Stop saying ladyship. I haven't asked you anything yet.
23:17Who is that youth spear kite?
23:19Where did you meet him?
23:21Long ago, ladyship.
23:23I said where, not when.
23:27With the, with Lady Fuchsia, madam.
23:31And where does he come from?
23:33Well, where could he come from, ladyship, madam?
23:36He must come from somewhere.
23:39The same brilliant slag.
23:48And stop crying.
23:52Birds don't cry.
23:54Cats don't cry.
23:56So why should nannies?
23:58Go away.
24:01Oh.
24:03Spear kite.
24:05What do you think, Master Chalk?
24:22Marginally for the madman.
24:24You should put bells on it.
24:26What do you want?
24:27You, as a matter of fact.
24:29Doctor says, hurry up.
24:31Me, doctor?
24:33What for?
24:34You play, lordship.
24:37No trousers.
24:40Ooh.
24:43Play.
24:45Can't make whole sentence.
24:49Never mind.
24:51Play.
24:52Ooh.
24:54Good servant.
24:56If a bit simple.
24:58If you dare, boy.
24:59Lick my neck.
25:01Me dirty.
25:03Too much underling in the air.
25:10Out.
25:22You throw my cat.
25:26You touch my cat.
25:30You are no more.
25:38You are ended.
25:42This castle ejects you.
25:51You stay one week.
25:53One week.
25:55And another servant shall be found for the earl.
25:57One week.
25:58And one week only.
26:00And then you go.
26:14Now.
26:16We have seen true madness, haven't we, my little ones?
26:22True, true madness.
26:37Doctor!
26:39Where the hell is he?
26:41I'm here, sir.
26:53Mr. Secretary, you may begin.
26:57Chef!
26:59Now!
27:06The first breakfast ever.
27:10The first breakfast ever.
27:14The first breakfast ever.
27:19The first breakfast, as unwarranted by tradition, creates a precedence.
27:27A precedence, once accepted, becomes tradition.
27:31I can't bear it.
27:33I love him so much.
27:35I must be brave.
27:37There's no one else to look after him.
27:39Or as in this case, caused by the unhealthy love of a father for his son.
27:44Get on with it, you idiot.
27:46Cat thrower.
27:51Mother won't look after him.
27:54Banished.
28:09Darkness.
28:16I can't keep giving him the pills.
28:18That damned owl will hoot again sooner or later.
28:22I must get a man.
28:24A man, a man, a man.
28:26What else is there?
28:27Reason is the all and everything.
28:30Soon, Mr. Flea.
28:32Reason is developed thus.
28:35Point one, the child.
28:37Titus, before us, is young lord.
28:41Point two, young lord, is heir to it.
28:45All and everything.
28:47We want our thrones.
28:49All and everything.
28:50Obviously includes breakfast.
28:52We want our thrones.
28:54Point four, breakfast, is food.
28:56And finally, point five, food is produced by the peasants.
29:02So, simply put...
29:04I want my daddy.
29:06...is set and laid in the stones as follows.
29:09Darkness.
29:11On this day, at this time, every year as the years roll.
29:18Darkness.
29:19Daddy.
29:20In honor of the heir's right to sustenance by the people.
29:25Darkness.
29:26My books are late.
29:27The peasants shall provide his lordship's breakfast.
29:32I want my books.
29:35Daddy.
29:36I want my books.
29:37I want my daddy.
29:41Pull me weak heart.
29:43Daddy.
29:46Lordship.
29:47Daddy.
29:49Get him down.
29:50I have a son.
29:53Where is my son?
29:55Father John.
29:59Lordship.
30:00Lordship.
30:01Lordship.
30:02Mr. Flay. Mr. Flay.
30:04Who has done this?
30:11Who has done this?
30:30Now go find or look of loochers elsewhere.
30:34Come one hurry.
30:37Let weep.
30:42Anything I can do, Doctor?
30:49No?
30:51Sure.
30:53Anything at all?
30:59Is there any hope for him?
31:01Hope? For his lordship?
31:03Hope?
31:04That is a concept of the highest order, Ladyship.
31:07A hopeful concept. Hope.
31:09Squalor, do we have any?
31:14My sister hopes for a male, Ladyship.
31:16I beg...
31:17My sister?
31:18I heard you the first time.
31:20Your sister? A man?
31:22Spends her days in the bath.
31:24Hope springs eternal, I believe, is the correct...
31:26Squalor, get out.
31:28I want reports on his lordship every hour on the hour.
31:31Have I made myself clear?
31:33Yes.
31:34As the great chime of the great...
31:37Out.
31:47Something stinks, my dears.
31:50And it's not Squalor.
31:59Poor little lordship.
32:01Oh, you poor old nanny.
32:03We mustn't let that little wethead get cold.
32:06Ah, where's that girl?
32:10Where have you been, you naughty girl?
32:12You know very well it's the day for his little lordships all over.
32:17What are you doing?
32:18It's time, nanny. I've been waiting for you to get back.
32:21You can't go.
32:22I'll tell her, Ladyship.
32:24Don't I have enough on my plate?
32:26Come here, little one.
32:28You can't go back to them out there.
32:30Because they hate you.
32:32You're having a bastard.
32:34Maybe I won't go there.
32:35Where, then?
32:36I don't know.
32:39I wish I could take you with me.
32:42I love you, little one.
32:44You'll remember your tiny sister, won't you?
32:47He's not his sister. Don't ever say that.
32:49Sister, indeed.
32:51Don't matter what you say, nanny, or me.
32:53He'll know.
32:56Don't go.
32:59What'll I do?
33:01Bye, nanny.
33:04Bye, my little boy.
33:07Bye.
33:10Don't go.
33:12You can't.
33:17Oh, my weak heart.
33:28Don't go.
33:59Tonight, my precious.
34:07Tonight, Mr. Flea.
34:28Don't go.
34:30Don't go.
34:57What is it, Master Chalk?
35:00What is it?
35:17For you,
35:19my little red and wet pretty one.
35:24And then I shall wipe you dry with silk.
35:42Mr. Flea!
35:54Kitchen!
35:56Scum!
36:11Lordship! Lordship!
36:43They will take me in.
36:49Lordship.
36:53Lordship.
37:12Good night, Mr. Flea.
37:15Kitchen slug at your service.
37:20Delicious.
37:23Good night, my servant Flea.
37:28Wait. Wait, my precious.
37:32You shall be clean and silvery before you eat.
37:47Now, for dinner.
37:53Ah!
38:03Ah!
38:23Now, my pretty one.
38:26We have him.
38:45Hey! Hey! Hey!
38:52Oh!
39:03Death, servant!
39:08Now!
39:23There is much to be done, Flea.
39:31They will enjoy him.
39:34Lordship.
39:38Heave, Mr. Flea.
39:40Heave!
39:47This is my hour, you see.
39:50Heave, Mr. Flea.
39:52Heave!
40:01This is my time.
40:04Lord?
40:06Go now.
40:12Goodbye, my dear Mr. Flea.
40:16Oh, no, Lordship! No, no!
40:18Lordship! No, no!
40:42Go on, go on.
40:48Go on.
41:18Go on.
41:36Goodbye, Mr. Flea.
41:44Anything?
41:47Ah, you. Third stairs. Take the dog.
41:49Yes, sir.
41:51Is the east wing completed?
41:53The east wing has 638 rooms on the first floor, 503 on the second, and 700 on the third.
42:00Captain Rutcock!
42:02Not counting auxiliary buildings, extensions, quarries, anterooms, closets, attics, basements,
42:08untrod passages, unknown regions, darkness and rot.
42:12And have you found him?
42:14Not a log grown in any of them, Master Sneerbite.
42:18Steerpike, and don't get on the wrong side of me, Rutcock, or I'll see you scrub stone on the jailhouse floor.
42:25Look, and look again. His lordship will be found.
42:29Captain Rutcock! Call off the dogs.
42:33Come with me, snake-shite!
42:40You'll regret that.
42:45Not found him?
42:46Nine days.
42:48Not found him?
42:49Such nine days!
42:53Seventy-five earls in the history of time. Not one has ever gone missing.
42:59They die, abdicate, go mad, take up arms, kill each other, eat their children, mutilate themselves,
43:07split, shriek, decompose, but never, never disappear.
43:14An earl is the mast, he is the path, the marrow in the bone. Without him, we are hollow.
43:21I am aware of the traditions and history of this castle. The chef, Swelter, have you found him?
43:26Chef? A chef cooks? What is there to cook if the master is not there to eat?
43:30Chef, he comes, he goes, he's nothing. Lordship is all...
43:35Secretary Barkentine.
43:36No, your lordship. Greatest, greatest respect. I'm secretary to us. Responsible to it all.
43:49Nine days, nine days, no ceremony, no obeisance, no authority, no daily rite and passage,
43:59no heart pumping the blood of rule. We are disrupted.
44:08His lordship is gone. Long live his lordship.
44:12What did you say? Long live his lordship.
44:14Titus? Exactly.
44:15Titus is barely a year old.
44:17Long may he live. We shall prepare the earling...
44:22Barkentine.
44:23Next Thursday, the longest day. It is propitious.
44:29You may go.
44:30An earling, your ladyship. There is much to be done.
44:35Lord Crane.
44:40It's gone. History. There is no alternative to what I say.
44:50Then you must do it, Mr. Secretary. Now go.
45:13Open them up, you bastard.
45:18What is this?
45:19That is the book of the law, sir.
45:21What is law?
45:22That which always has been, sir.
45:24That which always has been. Good, good, good. What else?
45:28It is destiny, sir.
45:30Law is destiny. And obedience is tradition. Don't forget that. That is the all and everything.
45:44Do you understand?
45:46Yes, sir.
45:47Good.
45:49You're an obsequious ass. There is work to be done. Too much work.
45:56Who is your master?
45:58None, sir. I try to make myself useful here and there.
46:01Oh, don't try and rook me. Sneer sight I see through you. Bones and brain.
46:07Your master is the doctor. No doubt he'll be pleased to be rid of you.
46:10No more here and there, here and there for you. Here, here, by me. You understand?
46:14I'm now your master. You may be useful.
46:19We have an early raft to be built. It's all here.
46:28Come on, come on. Read it. Study.
46:37How much will I be paid, sir?
46:39What?
46:42Your keep.
46:43And the honour of studying time itself. The runes of Gormenghast.
46:55Are you ready?
46:57I have never been more so, sir.
46:59Then start. The Erling. Read!
47:14Well, well. You did ask me.
47:20Erling. Erling.
47:27An Erling.
47:28Our brother's dead.
47:29Our brother's gone.
47:31So why give the power to a baby?
47:33It's ours.
47:39So why should we wait?
47:42Mr. Steerpike.
47:44Mr. Steerpike?
47:45We must see about Mr. Steerpike, mustn't we?
47:48He told us to do it, didn't he?
47:50He told us to burn, didn't he?
47:52So we can tell them what he said, can't we?
47:55Of course we can.
48:03Oh, look at you, me lovely smallness.
48:07No father, not that I'd call him a father to look after you.
48:12No fat chef to cook for you.
48:15No Mr. Fleister.
48:17We can do without that long string of black bone, can't we?
48:22No, we can't.
48:23I wasn't talking to you.
48:24I was talking to your little brother.
48:26I don't care who you were talking to.
48:28We can't do without Mr. Flay.
48:30We can't do without my father either.
48:33I don't care how wonderful Titus is.
48:35He's just a baby.
48:38The top, and by the top, I mean the very last cubic inch of the morning to you, my dears.
48:44Are we enjoying this delicious breeze?
48:49Dr. Poole, I'm so glad you've come.
48:51I'm delighted to see you, my dear.
48:53And Mrs. Slag?
48:54At peace, I hope.
48:55Carnally speaking, that is.
48:56I ebb and I flow.
48:58And what is it that ebbs and what that flows, my dear little woman?
49:00Is it your heart that's tidal, or your nerves, or your liver?
49:03Bless you.
49:04Doctor, can I talk to you?
49:05Yes.
49:06And please don't use any long words.
49:09I have some terrible worries.
49:11My dear ladyship, always a shoulder, or an ear, or indeed any part of my anatomy at your disposal.
49:20Oh, Alfred!
49:21Ladyships!
49:23To hell with the old trouts.
49:24Breastless as wallpaper.
49:26My last post-mortem and more life in it.
49:28Ladyships!
49:34We've seen someone.
49:36Are you referring to me, ladyships?
49:38Don't be stupid.
49:39We're talking to you, aren't we?
49:43There.
49:45Ah, wrath-makers preparing for the earling.
49:47Only four days now, young lordship.
49:49What was that?
49:50I heard a splash.
49:51I'm not surprised, my butterfly.
49:52Alfred, why are you so tiresome?
49:54Why are you not surprised?
49:56Because that is exactly what it is, my peahen.
49:59An authentic, undiluted splash.
50:02And made by our ex-dispenser, now assistant to Barkentine.
50:06If these eyes can recognize a certain naked appendage as one attached to a certain seapike.
50:13We are the only ladies present, aren't we?
50:16What about it?
50:17We'll go down to the water's edge and unbend to him.
50:22Will it hurt?
50:24Oh, why are you so ignorant?
50:30I only just saw you, Lady Fuchsia.
50:32How is your health, Miss Anna?
50:36Watch yourselves, ladies.
50:38You'll get wet.
50:42Ladies!
50:43You do me too much honor.
50:46Ladies!
50:54We're unbending to you, Mr. Searpike.
50:57Because there's so much that you told us to do.
51:00And so much that we could say, Mr. Searpike.
51:03Be quiet, you idiots.
51:05Sit down at once.
51:08Ah.
51:15Now go back to your apartments.
51:17Any more talk of fire, and it'll be the hangman for you.
51:21Hangman. Do you understand?
51:24Now go.
51:38Beats me, Doctor.
51:40You beat me to the very pack, dear boy.
51:43Have a heart and swim away.
51:46You're so tired at the sight of your abdomen.
51:49Forgive its magnetism.
51:52Good day to you, Lady Fuchsia.
52:02You will be careful of him, won't you, Miss Anna?
52:05You will be careful of him, won't you, my dear young ladyship?
52:08Of course, Doctor Pooh.
52:19Your throats are white and long for strangling.
52:22Sisters of a brother send mad by burning.
52:25You shall hang.
52:27You shall hang!
52:35Whoo-hoo-hoo!
52:37Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
53:06Ah!
53:12Are you skunks ready?
53:15Then push off, idiots!
53:18Push off!
53:29So, the tiniest thing in the world is an earl today.
53:34Someday, they're going to come and take him away from me.
53:38They didn't take me, did they?
53:40But they don't take silly girls, do they?
53:42Well, they should, shouldn't they?
53:57Come on! Come on!
54:00It'll be winter before we're done!
54:02No!
54:11No!
54:12Home!
54:14Far to the west!
54:16And hide your damn selves under the dead water!
54:23Under the dead water!
54:33The day has come, young lordship.
54:39The curse awaits your sovereignty.
54:43Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
54:47From horizon to horizon, all is yours.
54:56For God's sake!
54:59Pick it up! Pick it up, one of you!
55:02Get the little ranty stone back and the ivy!
55:06I'll do it.
55:07Stay where you are, bear spot!
55:14Come back here, you idiots!
55:25Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
55:30Ah! Ah! Ah!
55:49Come back, you idiot!
55:59Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:02Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:06Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:09Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:12Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:15Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:18Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:21Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:24Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:28Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:48He's behaving his damn self!
56:53Ah! Ah! Ah!
56:57In view of all, I, warden of the immemorial rite,
57:06do proclaim you to be the only legitimate god between earth and sky.
57:20Oh, my beloved.
57:23Titus Grown, the seventy-seventh of all the gomen gods,
57:36Titus.
57:38Titus! Titus!
57:39Titus! Titus! Titus!
57:45Titus! Titus! Titus!
57:48Titus! Titus! Titus!
57:52How nice to be born a groom.
58:21Silence! Silence! Silence!
58:51Silence!
59:21Silence!
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