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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Horizontal Connection to the Works You Revealed?

I don't see a sort of horizontal connection, as it were, the connections to the works your reverence in yours resting to me because so many of the source texts treat these worlds as monstrous, horrible things. And then in pyrenese, it all sort of becomes transcendent and lovely. I think it's just a reflection of the fact that i found when i was ill, i found these things both fascinating and oppressive. I both wanted to go there and i felt oppressed by them.

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