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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 Secret Knowledge of Ancient People

The pyrnase has been placed in this world by the other to help him on his quest for secret knowledge that he thinks ancient societies used to have. So ivan's asking if the other just misunderstood the nature of the knowledge, and if the skilled piernese learned, actually fulfilled the other's quest. I hadn't thought of that. i think probably pyreneses idea that the statues sort of are may be images left behind by this knowledge flowing but it is quite an interesting idea. The knowledge that pyranaise has about how to look after himself and the natural world, it's not so much tat that's part of the great and secret knowledge, but

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