Piranesi: Chapters 4 and 5

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Wikipedia rabbit holes. Peacefulness or lack thereof in the world of Piranesi. The source of human goodness and morality. Sudafed fever dreams. These and many other topics are discussed on this week’s discussion of Susannah Clarke’s novel. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.1	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.8	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.3	And what was that?
0:11.6	You're listening to Closer with the podcast for the Incurable Reader.
0:15.0	Like you said it to make somebody laugh that time.
0:18.2	And I don't, she's not doing it on purpose.
0:20.2	But Heidi does do this thing where
0:22.0	she will sometimes be looking away until the very last moment.
0:26.4	And then she turns right to the camera.
0:28.6	I was doing this time.
0:29.2	Trying not to look at you.
0:30.0	And it just sometimes just strikes me in a funny way.
0:34.9	Okay.
0:35.5	All right.
0:35.8	Well, anyway, uh, it's just like a Brady Bunch kind of thing.
0:39.6	You're like, and I'm or, oh, no, Mickey Mouse Club, you know, or they're kind of turned
0:44.0	sideways and then they turn forward.
0:45.2	That's what I'm trying to do.
0:46.5	Thank you for catching that.
0:47.7	This is a book full of allusions to the work of C.S.
0:50.3	Lewis to great Renaissance era painters and scholars.
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