Summary

Piranesi continues to read the entry about Arne-Sayles. He held a lofty academic position at the University of Manchester, but tension arose as his interest in the occult grew more prominent. Rumors stated that he once took an ancient, mummified body from the university’s museum without permission, in order to use it in a ritual. One entry refers to Addedomarus, an ancient sorcerer whom Arne-Sayles sometimes invoked in rituals. Piranesi realizes that he has been spelling Addedomarus incorrectly. Arne-Sayles claimed that he had found a way to will himself into other worlds simply by shifting his mind away from conventional, rational thought patterns. Arne-Sayles asserted that ‘rationality’ was a modern invention, and that ancient peoples had supernatural powers because they were not bound by rationality. Piranesi feels that the labyrinth speaks to him in the manner that Arne-Sayles described the world speaking...