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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

The House of Esterion, by Liz Borhes

A, i don't really know where the water imagery comes from. H, we have a very interesting question from liz. She says a recent discovery is that our brains get washed with cerebro spinal fluid while we sleep. A ray asks, why the labyrinth in myth or concept as the setting and structure of your novel? How do we see the mythological archetypes of detalus, theseus, the minator, icarus, the athenian tribute, ariadne et cetera, as existing in a spectrum with your own characters and developments?

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