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Cari
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Mark
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Maria
I think the last line gives us the primary lesson from the novel: the whole world is like the House and we are all beloved children of the earth. We should all treat the world with as much reverence as Piranesi treated the house and we should all trust the earth to provide for us if we care for it.
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Judy Lindow
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Jeb
The closing passage, in my reading, was that the contours of the house extended beyond the world of vestibules and statues to the "real world" itself. I was left seriously questioning whether the "reality" experienced by the narrator wasn't just yet another facet of the House.
Jonathan Laserson
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Tom
I felt like this was him recognising that the world is beautiful and that he can live happily in the "real world".
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