"I am neither Piranesi or myself, who I used to be in the world, nor Matthew Rose Sorensen, I'm something else," he says. "So much of his identity is gone." He speaks about Piranesi in the third person. It's not as if he ever gets these memories flooding back. Like he doesn't get Matthew Soresen. Whatever he was that wasn't his memories persisted.

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