“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.”įrom the start there is something disconcerting. Piranesi studies the tides and the statues, and the House’s inhabitants: 15 skeletons which indicate previous occupants, and one living man called The Other, with whom Piranesi meets twice a week. Enormous windows look out onto grey courtyards and the windows on their opposite side. There are three floors: the bottom is a flooded sea, the top contains the clouds, and the middle contains the people and the birds.
It’s halls are seemingly endless, and each contains many statues of various figures and animals and mythic beings. He is a meticulous cataloguer of the House’s contents. Piranesi lives in the House and the House is the world.
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