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Speaking with Joy

Part Three: The Prophet (with the Crouches!)

Speaking with Joy

Joy Marie Clarkson

Books, Arts

5648 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Joy hosts a family discussion with Andy, Amy, and Timothy Crouch about Part Three of Piranesi. Their conversation touches on the wicked Prophet, self-care, naïveté, knowledge, innocence, and swan bones.



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0:00.0

Welcome to Reading with Joy.

0:07.7

This summer, we're reading Pyrinaezi by Susanna Clark, a book about a man who lives in a house

0:14.5

that loves him.

0:16.3

So get yourself a cup of tea.

0:18.2

Sit down and let's begin. Do you trust the house? I ask myself. Yes, I answer myself. And if the house has made you forget, then it has done so for good reason.

0:35.6

But I do not understand the reason. It does reason. But I do not understand the reason.

0:39.5

It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the beloved child of the house.

0:44.7

Be comforted. And I am comforted.

0:48.4

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Reading with Joy. We are reading Susanna Clark's intriguing, wondrous, and occasionally horrific novel,

0:58.5

Pyrinaezy.

0:59.9

And today I am so excited to invite on the show not one, not two, but three guests.

1:08.2

Give a warm welcome in your heart since no one's actually in this room to andy timothy and

1:13.4

amy crotch welcome you all so lovely to have you on the show thank you thank you thank you

1:18.9

so i'll let you all give a little bit of an introduction to yourself um to each one of yourselves

1:25.0

rather um but some of you may know andy course, for his work on things like culture makers,

1:30.6

but of course, you have a book of your own, Amy.

1:34.3

And so, well, why don't you all just give a little, a quick introduction to yourselves

1:37.9

and where you are, we're all zending, I would say zooming, but we're all in Zinncaster.

1:43.3

So we're all zining in from different spots in the world to say a bit about who you are

1:46.7

and where you're talking to us from.

1:50.3

Youngest first. Amy, you should go over.

1:51.9

All right.

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