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If only this were our get... Stupid flood detection.

I seemed to have lost my copy, and I have the itch to flip through some of the pages to find whatever could be tucked within...

I remember finding an interesting typo where the Navidson report shifts to first person, making me wonder if Zapano is Tom.

>> No.1000098

I don't think anyone's found anything beyond the obvious.

>> No.1000108

Dear Zampano:
What did you lose?

"A woman who will love my ironies."

>> No.1000117

Known some call is air am.

The part where Navidson almost gets himself lost when first exploring the house still gets to me. I think a lot of us have had that creeping dread and panic of things slipping from our grasp.

>> No.1000130

"A Long List of Visionaries"

>> No.1000140

Everybody knows Zampano and Karen and Pelafina had an epic threesome that gave birth to the House.

I mean, everybody knows that.

>> No.1000145

>>1000140

You can't give birth to God

>> No.1000148

>>1000140
Johnny is the minotaur/lost son of Zampano

>> No.1000150

>>1000145
GOD HAS NO MOTHER.

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Hey /lit/le girls, I was wondering if any of you could help me out.

I have a ton of unread books I've been buying en masse, and my library and room is horribly messy. I thought it would be a great idea to tick off my reading list by having an app on my phone (well, I use an iPhone) that had a 'virtual library' look to it.

I used to have Delicious Library for my Mac, but I want a library in my pocket. I don't intend to read these books as ebooks, I just want to see the covers and titles so I can tell myself to read and finish.

Do any of you know any apps or suggestions? (PEN AND PAPER, KEEP A FOLDED NOTE IN YOUR POCKET AT ALL TIMES, etc)

Pic related: this was Delicious Monster for the iPhone. The app got yanked. :(

>> No.1000172

>>1000150
GOD IS AN ECHO
IS AN ECHO
AN ECHO
ECHO
-O

>> No.1000175

I have to wonder what the actual pages of the Navidson Report were like. House of Leaves is what Johnny compiled, and the editing and sorting of those documents damaged his mind.

So, is HoL just the ramblings of a blind man and the fragile fool who tried to make sense of it?

>> No.1000186

>>1000175
Remember also that HoL is the frustration of The Editors trying to compile what the fragile schizophrenic put together from the blind man's ramblings.

This is assuming that Zampano actually wrote the Navidson Record.

>> No.1000206

>>1000186

Huh... You have to wonder what happened to those editors and what they've inserted into the book.

In a way, HoL can be a labyrinth formed from broken minds, growing with every attempt to decipher its meaning.

I should find my copy, write notes here and there, and then give it to someone else to solve and hopefully start a chain.

>> No.1000208

You know one thing that I still don't understand?

...Why was Zampano's diary (in the Appendices) written in fifteen or so different handwritings?

...And who wrote the Pelican Poems?

>> No.1000216

>>1000208
Sorry. Those are two things.

>PARHELION, YOUR MIND IS BROKEN

>> No.1000225

>>1000208
why the fuck were those included?
what as the significance?

whole book was a waste of my time

>> No.1000226

>>1000208
Zampano or Johnny Truant. They both have made comments about a woman's ankles in both their text sections.

>>1000206
The Editor citations are the only citations I consider objective.

>> No.1000239

>>1000225

Think of HoL as a koan. You work out what you feel is the best answer.

>> No.1000243

What the fuck was the check mark supposed to signify???

That's my question.

Does that mean Pelafina wrote the book?

>> No.1000256

>>1000243

No, the checkmark was what Johnny was supposed to mail Pelafina. Johnny probably scribbled it in.

The checkmark is also when the book's formatting alters.

>> No.1000298

I think people have moved on to dissecting Only Revolutions

>> No.1000299

remind me who Pelafina is

>> No.1000311

>>1000299

Johnny's (the compiler) mother. She was placed in a mental health institution sometime when Johnny was a child.

>> No.1000312

>>1000299
Johnny's mom, the craaaaaazy woman

>>1000298
I read the first sixteen pages of the Sam bit to this girl I like as a bedtime story. Results were mixed. There is nothing to dissect, Only Revolutions is spam poetry.

>> No.1000317

>>1000298
Only Revolutions was a good attempt, but came out rather terrible.

It was like a really bad Canterbury Tales homage.

>> No.1000355

>>1000298

Ugg... That book is like Finnegan's Wake.

I was looking forward to it, but Danielewski left me disappointed

>> No.1000382

Only Revolutions is pretty, though. Check out the formatting on that motherfucker.

>> No.1000414

>>1000382
You can try to pretty up a piece of shit with all the bows and flowers you can, but in the end, it still smells like dookie.