Liva Nickel’s Reviews > House of Leaves > Status Update

“[R]eaders of newspapers
and magazines will probably view news
pictures more as illustrations than as
reportage, since they will be well aware
that they can no longer distinguish
between a genuine image and one that
has been manipulated.” Feels like a commentary on AI. I wonder if this source is a legitimate one.

“[S]he's so open and uninhabited, I
mean uninhibited,…” Wait wait wait wait. Is a certain character and the House somehow allegories of one another? Again, wait? What? I must continue.

I just read the footnote of nothing but photographers names for two whole pages; skimming, but never missing a line in case there was some tidbit of information in there. There was not. What am I doing?

Damn.

I was reading before bed, getting tired but trying to make it to the end of the chapter when I started drifting off but dreaming that I was still reading the book. My eyes were definitely just focused on one spot when I became more conscious again, though. I don’t remember what I dreamed was in the book, time (?), but I remember realizing that I was dreaming and deciding to put the book down for the night. Trippy.

It’s intriguing. I’m surprised that I’m intrigued: I normally find this kind of stuff dull. Feels primarily like an English major writing about a piece of media. Not positive, but there seem to be three writers (so far): Hoss (?) Truant (Lude’s friend; archivist (?); courier font), the editors (a serif font), and Zampano (the dead old guy; Times font; many of his footnotes are (falsified?) references).