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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Very Bad Wizards

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Is Piranesi Able to Maintain His Mental Faculties?

The book is written so well, it's descriptions of a world that are giving you something that you're putting together as you read it. Though I must say that you are surprisingly coherent, poor James Ritter could barely string a sentence together by the end. And he wasn't here half as long as you. Why do you think Piranesi was able to maintain his mental faculties to the extent that he did? And notpoor James Ritter.

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