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Claudia Mcloughlin is on page 80 of 272

The ‘multivitamins’ = some kind of drug inducing amnesia in the protagonist.
Batter Sea like Battersea in London
‘The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not a means to an end’ the house symbolises life.
So far I think this novel is some kind of allegory about religion and the pursuit of existential knowledge ???

— Sep 11, 2024 07:38PM

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Claudia Mcloughlin is on page 194 of 272

— Sep 13, 2024 06:13AM

Claudia Mcloughlin is on page 142 of 272

Symbolic of the power of Coercion, abusive manipulation and control, gaslighting. Culty vibes

— Sep 12, 2024 10:14PM

Claudia Mcloughlin is on page 112 of 272

Examining what we ‘know’ to be true vs reality and how we cope when they contradict each other (fish don’t realise they are living in water analogy)

— Sep 11, 2024 09:40PM

Claudia Mcloughlin is on page 60 of 272

‘I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery’

The House is symbolic of life. If we spend our lives trying to figure it out we forget to live.

— Sep 10, 2024 06:23PM

Claudia Mcloughlin is on page 50 of 272

Loving the use of birds as symbolism. Birds typically represent messages between this reality and the spirit realm. The idea of weighing your soul against a feather comes to mind.
The statues, religious references and this liminal place of The House remind me of scenes in the Narnia series

— Sep 10, 2024 06:34AM

Claudia Mcloughlin is on page 25 of 272

Trippy, dreamlike. Potentially stuck in some kind of hallucination or simulation mind prison type structure?

— Sep 10, 2024 02:00AM