Confessions of an English Opium-Eater · Character
Piranesi
An artist whose dreamlike architectural prints haunt the narrator's opium visions.
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First appearance: The Pains of Opium
Piranesi shows up with force in The Pains of Opium. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Referenced indirectly through the description of vast architectural dreams reminiscent of Piranesi's engravings.
Piranesi first appears in 0005 part ii the pains of opium.
In The Pains of Opium: Referenced indirectly through the description of vast architectural dreams reminiscent of Piranesi's engravings.
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