Piranesi, Part 2: The Other (Second Half)

  Thanks for listening to The Great and Secret Knowledge: A Speculative Fiction Podcast! In this episode, Lindsey and Jeff cover the second half of Part 2: The Other.   Below you'll find our plugs, links, recommendations, and links to stuff from this week's episode! Please join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Lindsey's podcasts   The Kurt Locker Cool Breeze over the Mountains Historical Hotties   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ?   Social Media   Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter) Jeff Richardson @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon Links   Westworld CS Lewis Beauty & the Beast The Thing X-Files The Twilight Zone: "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" Doctor Who: "Enemy of the World", "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead" Fallout     Extended Notes   title chat A Conversation   ask the other for shoes? other doing a ritual Addy Domarus is Addy Domarus one of the dead? Other even more condescending Piranesi needs shoes list of things Other has given Him in the year he named the constellations, the list began 11:40  About shoes - move it back? 12:40  in the year i named the dead he gave me a ham sandwich dude has new suit everytime we see him he rationalizes the abuse and its effects why wouldnt he ask for the shoes? was he always like this? 17 None of the dead claim the name Addy Domarus this is a fantasy book so everything may have meaning he journeys with his new shoes he's nervous about the dark room   he has an obligation to the other he has a desire to please crowd of statues could the statues be actual people? or images from plays? are they seeing the actual moon? he decides the secret knowledge is pointless the House is the House its sacred, we shouldnt exploit it or try to define it  enriched uranium he finds 47 pieces of paper in the herring gull room he has so much patience   the other asks how the shoes are   Piranesi's bad memory Other remembers way more information if we're no longer colleagues than i cant spend time with you this comes up every 18 months   the house cares about systems but time seems less important   Other is really busy P has never tried to find out where Other lives is the House sentient? editing select memories is P an experiment? is TO afraid to stay over an hour cuz he might lose memories? why doesnt P seem to ever want to leave Westworld you dont know what you dont know   He writes a letter right on the stone where they normally meet   Another person! 16 are they a test subject? if you challenge traditions and their adherents you have to give up some of that veneration reason is one of the things that 16 wants to tear down prejudice him against people who might help him   the First Vestibule   We Got Two Minotaurs a long corridor formed by the shadows Cabin in the Woods the statue of an elderly fox teaching to youngsters could the letter be for Piranesi? P writes to the letter writer   that's it The Other is an asshole  P disbelieves the corridor's reality how does somebody just disappear? wolf child theory   who is the Prophet? 16? Piranesi? Jeff guesses there's a fourth person!   1:05:19 the end   aftershow   bookshelves collapsing CS Lewis dream library Beauty & the Beast The Thing X-Files The Twilight Zone "Enemy of the World" "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" Fallout "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" we're inquisitive by nature social primates we want to fit in yawning and sociopaths 10 percent of the population (is this accurate?) Am I a Psychopath?