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"I wasn't sure how 'into' House of Leaves I was until I got directions to go to Appendix II D&E (page 70 in my edition) and oh my god. Decoding parts of Appendix E was such a uniquely awful and heartbreaking experience. I can't not read anything else in the book without this context. My mind is spiraling. It's all starting to click together. Recommend trying up to this point to see if HoL is for you" — Nov 07, 2025 04:38AM
"I wasn't sure how 'into' House of Leaves I was until I got directions to go to Appendix II D&E (page 70 in my edition) and oh my god. Decoding parts of Appendix E was such a uniquely awful and heartbreaking experience. I can't not read anything else in the book without this context. My mind is spiraling. It's all starting to click together. Recommend trying up to this point to see if HoL is for you" — Nov 07, 2025 04:38AM
“Remember this: the world as it once was. The way things appear in the instant before they go under: first assured, then shipwrecked. The ease with which facts presumed permanent can change.”
― Private Rites
― Private Rites
“Normality is the creepiest madness there is. This was all insane, yet it was so right.”
― Vanishing World
― Vanishing World
“Maria drove the freeway… She drove it as a riverman runs a river, every day more attuned to its currents, its deceptions, and just as a riverman feels the pull of the rapids in the lull between sleeping and waking, so Maria lay at night in the still of the Beverly Hills and saw the great signs soar overhead at seventy miles an hour.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“Some parts of her I keep in my memory, others in my heart. This, I keep in my blood. And all night in bed, my blood slowly drags through my veins, bringing that moment to every piece of my body. It is beyond words. This isn't a feeling, it is a state of being.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“Mythical figures live many lives, die many deaths, and in this they differ from the characters we find in novels, who can never go beyond the single gesture. But in each of these lives and deaths all the others are present, and we can hear their echo. Only when we become aware of a sudden consistency between incompatibles can we say we have crossed the threshold of myth.”
― The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
― The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
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