The Meaning Code | Reading Piranesi from Three Standpoints:As Literature, Philosophy, Devotion plus a Little Science:-) @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Matt and Karen read and talk about Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Time stamps follow.
0:00 Meaning Code intro
0:17 Piranesi Intro
2:30 Piranesi and the passion of the novel
3:40 The straight line and the curve, the Ship of Theseus
5:20 Philosophy began with Thales
8:45 Thales fell into a well
9:30 Philosophy is an oratory
10:30 How does an object endure w/o breaking down over time?
11:25 The first epigraph to the book
13:42 The second epigraph to the book
16:30 The minimalism of the book (the tight, lean view of first person from the second remove of the narrative of the journal
18:30 The problem of recollection
20:20 How did ancient astronomers have the patience to watch?
21:20 Longing and passion
23:30 The privacy of a book
27:48 Barfield territory
31:00 What’s at stake that Susanna Clarke had to write Piranesi?
33:00 The hard-boiled genre of mystery is a compression of liturgical patterning
34:28 The Jordan Peterson moment of wanting the proper frame
40:20 The story of the water from under the altar is from Ezekiel 47 (paraphrase was a little off)
biblehub.com/nasb_/ezekiel/47.htm
Gregory of Nyssa wrote The Life of Moses
goodreads.com/en/book/show/102122.The_Life_of_Moses
48:00 The Woman with the Beehive, in the niche
54:00 The capitalized nouns - SOLID!
58:00 Postmodern problems
1:10:30 Wolfgang Smith - physicist
1:14:00 What is it? Where do we find the manna?
1:19:30 The Descriptive choice, like radar, or like a spotlight
1:23:30 Stay with the Infinite, focus
1:29:30 The calming influence of diagramming Greek:-)
1:34:09 A response to Rob Bell strawmannirg Christianity
1:36:00 Waiting for Godot, Endgame, by Samuel Beckett
1:38:00 Taking off the old man
1:39:00 Piranesi has an agenda of interrogating the Good, the True and the Beautiful
1:40:00 News about Matthew’s upcoming screenplay, Movable Type
Matt and Karen read and talk about Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Time stamps follow.
0:00 Meaning Code intro
0:17 Piranesi Intro
2:30 Piranesi and the passion of the novel
3:40 The straight line and the curve, the Ship of Theseus
5:20 Philosophy began with Thales
8:45 Thales fell into a well
9:30 Philosophy is an oratory
10:30 How does an object endure w/o breaking down over time?
11:25 The first epigraph to the book
13:42 The second epigraph to the book
16:30 The minimalism of the book (the tight, lean view of first person from the second remove of the narrative of the journal
18:30 The problem of recollection
20:20 How did ancient astronomers have the patience to watch?
21:20 Longing and passion
23:30 The privacy of a book
27:48 Barfield territory
31:00 What’s at stake that Susanna Clarke had to write Piranesi?
33:00 The hard-boiled genre of mystery is a compression of liturgical patterning
34:28 The Jordan Peterson moment of wanting the proper frame
40:20 The story of the water from under the altar is from Ezekiel 47 (paraphrase was a little off)
biblehub.com/nasb_/ezekiel/47.htm
Gregory of Nyssa wrote The Life of Moses
goodreads.com/en/book/show/102122.The_Life_of_Moses
48:00 The Woman with the Beehive, in the niche
54:00 The capitalized nouns - SOLID!
58:00 Postmodern problems
1:10:30 Wolfgang Smith - physicist
1:14:00 What is it? Where do we find the manna?
1:19:30 The Descriptive choice, like radar, or like a spotlight
1:23:30 Stay with the Infinite, focus
1:29:30 The calming influence of diagramming Greek:-)
1:34:09 A response to Rob Bell strawmannirg Christianity
1:36:00 Waiting for Godot, Endgame, by Samuel Beckett
1:38:00 Taking off the old man
1:39:00 Piranesi has an agenda of interrogating the Good, the True and the Beautiful
1:40:00 News about Matthew’s upcoming screenplay, Movable Type
