Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
Very Bad Wizards
Do the Statues Exist?
Pernissi says the wisdom of the ancients could not have simply vanished. He pictured it as a sort of energy flowing out of the world. That was when he realized that there must be other places, other worlds. And so I set myself to find them. This is what I call a distributary world. It was created by ideas flowing out of another world. Whether this world is still dependent on the continued existence of the first one, I don't know.
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