Matt Price – technology historian and dedicated educator – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics. No insights, only more questions.

Show notes:

• Susanna Clarke’s official website
• Piranesi on Goodreads
• Very Bad Wizards on Piranesi
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi on Wikipedia
• Carceri d’invenzione, Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s “Imaginary Prisons”
• All Things Shining, the book I refer to as “Everything Shining” in the podcast
• Gene Wolfe, who Ursula K. Le Guin referred to as “our Melville”
• Aleister Crowley
• Bodhisattva
• Natural history
• Various soundtracks to Piranesi:
  • “Everything Forgotten Flows” by Priori
  • “Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo” by Francesco Messina and Raul Lovisoni
  • In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country by Boards of Canada

Next month, will be Jurassic Park (the movie and the book!) with Mark Chambers.