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“the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“And You. Who are You? Who is it that I am writing for? Are You a traveller who has cheated Tides and crossed Broken Floors and Derelict Stairs to reach these Halls? Or are You perhaps someone who inhabits my own Halls long after I am dead?”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“This is where I lost Myself. I lost Myself in long, sick fantasies of revenge.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Yet as we travel deeper into the strange world of the story, the feeling we get is of being understood - which is odd when you think about it, because at school learning is based on whether or not we understand what we are reading. In fact it is the story (or the poem) that is understanding us.
Books read us back to ourselves.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Books read us back to ourselves.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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