Ex.: “We have all grown so accustomed to hearing obreptitious claims for the value and potential of cryptocurrency that skepticism about generative AI seems only natural.”
Titus Alone was an accurate take on the 20th century. Once the story moved on from the Gormeghast setting, it had to do something different, and I think it did it well. I found it more disturbing than the first two novels, perhaps because of Peake's fraying mind in its collision with that century.
It certainly wasn't a well-made novel, too much bleeding from the wounds, but none the worse for that. It has an intensity and sharpness, and sometimes it's better not to blunt the edges of a story with artifice.