titus passes by his old home, decides not to go back.

this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.

titus and gertrude throughout Gormenghast

in our vision of this world these guys live out in the foothills and are threatened not by floodwater, as in Gormenghast, but by landslides, as in The Control of Nature (John McPhee).