Navidson: Why won't you publish my documentary??
Film Producer: Well, first there's the pacing issue.
Navidson: YES!!! That's what I've been trying to explain! The house measures a half pace bigger on the inside!!
(See what I did there in describing the video length?)
Ohhhhhhh. Sagan Hawkes just dropped a three and a half mile essay about The House Of Leaves..........
(If you haven't read the book, go do that first, and since he's gonna tie this in with MyHouse.wad, then play that or watch a playthrough, and only then watch the essay.)
(Seriously. House of Leaves is not a read so much as an experience. It's the book I feel the most about every time I'm reminded it exists.)
Solo diré una cosa, porque está maravilla no necesita más presentaciones:
Casa de hojas
I'm reading House Of Leaves for a second time and I think I might go to the library tomorrow to read. Because there's only two ways to read this book:
Like the editor, in a library, studiously
Like Zampanò, shutters closed, in the near dark, and a little bit of paranoia
(You could also read it like Johnny, but that's the same as Zampanò but horny.)
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"There are several more shots. Trees in winter. Blood on the kitchen floor. One shot of a child (Daisy) crying. Then back to Navidson: "Nothing but this tape which I've seen enough times, its more like a memory than anything else. And I still don't know: was he right or just out of his mind?" Followed by three more shots. Dark hallways. Windowless rooms. Stairs."
— Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, pp. 5-5
These various images stuck with me.
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"Whoever finds and publishes this work shall be entitled to all proceeds. I ask only that my name take its rightful place. Perhaps you will even prosper. If, however, you discover that readers are less than sympathetic and choose to dismiss this enterprise out of hand, then may I suggest you drink plenty of wine and dance in the sheets of your wedding night, for whether you know it or not, now you truly are prosperous. They say truth stands the test of time. I can think of no greater comfort han knowing this document failed such a test."
— Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, pp. Xix-Xix
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"I'd been in the throes of looking for an apartment after a little difficulty with a landlord who woke up one morning convinced he was Charles de Gaulle. I was so stunned by this announcement that before I could think twice I'd already told him how in my humble estimation he did not at all resemble an airport though the thought of a 757 landing on him was not at all disagreeable. I was promptly evicted. I could have put up a fight but the place was a nuthouse anyway and I was glad to leave. As it turned out Chuckie de Gaulle burnt the place to the ground a week later. Told the police a 757 had crashed into it."
— Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, pp. Xi-Xi
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Anthony on Pixelfed, of course
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