Hey there, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Sean Johnson.

And you're listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Susanna Clark's Piranesi.

We were discussing part one of Piranasi here on the beginning of a new series.

And on this episode, what we're going to do is discuss part one.

And then we're going to discuss fantasy novels in general and houses in literature in general.

And the way the books broke down, it just made sense to do part one and then do two and three together and then four and five and then six and seven and

there wasn't a great place to do one and then half of two it just didn't make sense yeah so we figured

it's easter week it's holy week and we have a great deal going on so we're just going to do part

one talk about those two subjects and and then we will be back with a longer section for you,

and probably there for a longer episode, frankly, next week.

Before we get into that, though, Sean, how's it going?

It's going great. Long time, no C.

I know. We just finished recording an episode,

and then we all came back and Zoom wasn't working,

and everything's different now.

It's crazy. It's a new world. Yeah. It's a new age, so you were just making the joke.

You know, the new age in which Heidi's laptop's not working and my headphones aren't working and Zoom seems to be on the fritz.

Yeah, now we think maybe it's like there's a glitch in the Matrix.

Right. That's right. So maybe's a glitch in the matrix. Right.

That's right.

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