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Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a Difference Between the Regency Vocabulary and the Capitalization?

I think his voice is so jarringly separate from pyrenases as you read it, because pyrenases in that sort of heightened almost this book. I think i'm always very comfortable leaving out contractions. You sort of go back to, i don't know, a slightly earlier way of being. Not just go back to the nineteenth century, but somehow you go back in your own life. So yes, there was that. And there was also the capitalization, which seemed to me like werl hes saying, everything he capitalizes thinks is hugely important. It may be, strictly speaking, inanimate, but not to him. It has a soul. It has purpose

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