#book #finishedread2024 # Piranesi  [Author:: Susanna Clarke] [Status:: Listening] [Approximate_Start_Date:: 2024-07-02] [Finish_Date:: 2024-07-25] ## [Rating:: 90] # Reading Notes - Listening to the audiobook on Audible # My Thoughts - This book has really gotten me thinking about my own journaling habits, my own knowledge management systems, and even what I do here in [[myaiba]]. - What do I record? What is relevant? - It seems a little amusing to consider what I consider truly relevant information I want to document in my own pursuits, and how I am able to recall this information. - Piranesi even talks about making an index of all of his notes, but eventually said index becomes so big itself, he needs an index of an index. - Something something the most accurate ma would be impossible to parse because it would be the same size as the area it charts. - sometimes we CAN get a little too in the weeds of how we document information, and it falls to us to know where that limit is, and what is ACTUALLY truly relevant - The way the narrator describes the world as understanding rivers and mountains as concepts because the statues present them is very "Plato's Cave"\ - I do think that the world is really really cool. - Reminds me of something like [[Ib]] or [[House of Leaves]] - House of Leaves in Particular because the House in this book appears to go on forever, something to be mapped out. However, it's not presented as malevolent like the House in [[House of Leaves]] - [[Piranesi's House is as much a character as the protagonist]] ## Plot Speculation - The multi-vitamin definitely is shady as heck # Favorite Moments / Memories - I love the description of the world. There's so many interesting statues to be made. # What were you doing when not reading this? - Running around Ann Arbor, commuting to the lab. # Relevant Links