Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
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Book Review - Birmingham by Matthew Rose Sorensen
It struck me as something like a fantasy that an introvert might have of being one of two people in the world. It's just interesting that he is both alone in some way and yet not he's comforted by it. He gets little visions of just people rushing or just things rushing by him that raise his anxiety. So then I guess to talk about how this all resolves and then who 16 is, it turns out to be in some ways like a hero of the whole book.
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