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Happy Bright Carvers Day!

Happy Bright Carvers Day!

Today is the Day of the Bright Carvers, according to Mervyn Peake’s GORMENGHAST novels. Today is the day that the Bright Carvers (who take their name from the age-old craft of woodcarving, which is their only passion), a poor a disease-ridden community whose only pride…