![]() Norrell, because Susanna Clarke is a beautiful genius and I’ll fight you. The writing style of Piranesi isn’t tremendously similar to the writing style of Jonathan Strange and Mr. And this year she wrote Piranesi, a pithy novel of a mere 272 pages about a man who lives alone (?) in an endless House comprising statues and floods and rotting things, and I really loved it. Which proves magical thinking doesn’t work.Īnyway, as you remember, Susanna Clarke wrote Jonathan Strange and Mr. ![]() What gets you Piranesi in September 2020 (if magical thinking were real) would be keeping the faith in spite of all the odds. I could not ask for more.” And that’s not the kind of attitude which (if magical thinking were real) gets you Piranesi in September 2020. In the last few years, I had said out loud to more than one person, “Susanna Clarke will only ever write one novel.” I had said, “But that’s okay! She has already given us perfection. However, had I not given up magical thinking in 2019, I would have had to admit that it is not real when it was announced that Susanna Clarke had a new book coming out, because I admit that I have not kept the faith. ![]() What I’m saying is, I am safe from the minefield of magical thinking that is 2020. I’m coming up all mine-sniffing animals, and I don’t want my very successful self-administered cognitive behavioral therapy to feel in any way connected with exploding rats or whatever. Luckily I have a - actually, I have lost control of this metaphor and do not know what sort of a thing you’d use to protect against a minefield. As I may have mentioned twenty-two thousand times, I gave up magical thinking in 2019, and this was very smart of me because 2020 turned out to be a magical thinking minefield.
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