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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke [review short]

Quite a mournful, beautiful book. Draws the reader in slowly, and gradually becomes increasingly compelling. Thematically an interesting rumination on modernity, as well as humility vs arrogance in the face of a (dream)world you don't understand.

"I realized that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unraveled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery."

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