Very Bad Wizards

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

Feb 28, 2023

01:43:52

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Is This Why I Got a Fleshlight From Microsoft.org?

01:46

Kevin Ruse's Article on Bing Chatbots

01:34

Jesus Christ - The Fucking Best Ending

01:59

Introduction

2min

Is This Why I Got a Fleshlight From Microsoft.org?

2min

The Unsettling Interaction Between Kevin Ruse and Sydney, the Bing Search Engine

2min

Kevin Ruse's Article on Bing Chatbots

2min

Are You Ready to Hear My Secret?

1min

Are You Blaming the Victim?

2min

I Don't Know What's Going On, I'm Just Not Satisfied

3min

Chat GBT

3min

The Emojis Are the Most Intriguing

4min

10.

How Much Did You Enjoy Talking to Me?

2min

11.

What's the Probability of a Guy in an Office Doing This?

2min

12.

BetterHelp Online Therapy - Discover Your Potential

5min

13.

How Do You Support Deadwood?

2min

14.

Susanna Clark's Pirannessy

3min

15.

The Library of Babel by Tamara Clark

4min

16.

The House of Piranesi

3min

17.

The Innocence of Piranesi

3min

18.

The Albatross, the Year of the Dead

2min

19.

What the Fuck?

2min

20.

Aristotle's Attitude, That Kind of Descriptivism

2min

21.

I Love Piranesse More Than the Rest

3min

22.

The Insignificance of the Knowledge

2min

23.

Is This a Book Like M Night Shyamalan's Movie?

2min

24.

Book Review - The Witch and the Wardrobe

3min

25.

Is That Why There Are Statues?

2min

26.

Do the Statues Exist?

3min

27.

Is There Something Deeply True About Ancient Wisdom?

2min

28.

Lawrence Aren't Sales Can't Keep Track of What Were Looking For

3min

29.

Is Piranesi Able to Maintain His Mental Faculties?

2min

30.

Is There a Sci-Fi Explanation?

2min

31.

I Will Kill You. Yeah. And if the 16 Makes You Mad. Yeah

3min

32.

'It's Fucked Up in the World'

3min

33.

Book Review - Birmingham by Matthew Rose Sorensen

2min

34.

Are There Any Skeletons in This World?

2min

35.

Is Jesse Single a Dick Just Because He Asked Questions?

3min

36.

The Purification of the Spirit in Parfett by Susanna Clark

4min

37.

I'm Not Piranesi, but of Rose Sorensen, I Am Something Other

2min

38.

Jesus Christ - The Fucking Best Ending

2min

39.

The Last Line of the Book, the Beauty of the House Is Immeasurable

2min

40.

The Good Side of Piranesi

2min

41.

Is There a Difference Between Keterly and Ritter?

2min

42.

I Love That Raphael Takes James Ritter Back

2min

43.

I'm a Beautiful Statue of Chiseled From the Whole Reach

3min

David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke’s "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and thrilling novel with echoes of Borges, Plato, C.S. Lewis, and even Parfit. The first part of our conversation is spoiler-free so you can listen to that section if you haven’t read it yet. (But seriously read this book! We both read it in a few days.)

Plus, watch out ladies - Sydney the Bing chatbot is coming to steal your man.

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