kaylee the bear

My name is Kaylee and this is my space.

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"The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device."

As mentioned by "End of Books." 

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I made a gif of this instagram video.

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"I believe Karen could never have crossed that line had she not first made those two remarkable cinematic moments: What Some Have Thought and A Brief History Of Who I Love." 

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Most of Zampano's letters on this page are blacked out, an obvious reminder of the black void in the House. It's also a labyrinth, thus the red text. The word within the O's is related to the word within the X's on p373....

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"For a dazed instant she lay on the asphalt amid the scattered contents of her bag--der absoluten Zerrissenheit" = the absolute affliction of the soul

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"Do you know about Zeno's arrow?" 

The way the book describes Zeno's paradox was pretty confusing in my opinion, and this video does a better job. 

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"Most famous of all, however, was the labyrinth Daedalus constructed for king Minos. It served as a prison. Purportedly located on the island of Crete in the city of Knossos, the maze was built to incarcerate the Minotaur, a creature born from an illicit encounter between the queen and a bull...this monster devoured more than a dozen Athenian youths every few years before Theseus eventually slew it."

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"Navidson over the last few weeks has been setting up in the living room, including though not limited to, three monitors, two 3/4" decks, a VHS machine, a Quadra Mac, two Zip drives, an Epson color printer, an old PC, at least six radio transmitters and receivers, heavy spools of electrical cord, video cable, one 16mm Arriflex, one 16mm Bolex, a Minolta Super 8, as well as additional flashlights, flares, rope, fishing line (anything from braided Dacron to 40 lb multi-strand steel), boxes of extra batteries, assorted tools, compasses twitching to odd polarities in the house, and a broken megaphone, not toe mention surrounding shelves

already loaded with sample jars, graphs, books and even an old microscope." 

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A reading of the Don Quixote passage in Spanish on page 42 of House of Leaves—the one that Zampano repeats twice, and claims there is a difference although we can see that there is not. 

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"Welcome to The Atrocity…in the first engine room, sparks from a blown fuse suddenly found a puddle of oil, an unhappy mistake an old mop could have corrected, should have, but it’s too late…" 

I made this GIF with stop motion animation using construction paper and a model ship, and I used a free program called “gimp” to animate it. 

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In chapter 21, Johnny makes a list of his thoughts as he travels to the College of William & Mary, Richmond, and Charlottesville. As I read this part I imagined him reading a big map, making notes, trying to figure out his next move. 

I made this using Gimp and MS Paint. I also downloaded a font from dafont.com called “Hand Writing”, which I picked because it looked kind of messy and disorganized, just like Johnny’s thoughts at the moment. 

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"Sure enough the final frames of Navidson’s film capture in the upper right-hand corner a tiny fleck of blue crying light into the void." 

I used crayon to color in the black, because it looks really chaotic and almost like white noise, or I guess in this case “black noise”, which is what Navidson struggles with inside the void—the horrible, crushing “black noise” of stuttering silence. 

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This is a photoset, though you can’t tell if you’re viewing it from the booksafterbooks page because of theme. Just click through.

These shots appear at the very beginning of the Navidson Record, and because they all have a sense of darkness to them, I added some black voids to most of them. 

For instance in the “windowless room”, there are no windows but there are blackened picture frames which makes it really creepy. 

Click each picture to read the captions (unless you’re on booksafterbooks then the captions don’t work). 

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Dream # 2

"Navidson follows and soon discovers that they are heading for a the hill on which lies the shell of an immense snail…Navidson, however, keeps climbing up through the shell. Soon he is alone…he understands if the candles goes out he will be thrust into pitch darkness." 

Navidson experiences the same feeling of being trapped and powerless to a looming, imminent darkness in this dream as he does in the house. Because of this, I made the inside of the shell just as confusing and frustrating, with inexplicable staircases, ropes, and ladders that don’t operate by the laws of nature. 

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Johnny’s mother writes these Olde English words to him in a letter, but they are originally from an Anglo-Saxon poem named “The Seafarer”. This line translates to: “Great is the fear of the Lord, before which the world stands still.” (x) 

I placed the text over an image of Earnest Hemingway and his newly caught marlin, because House of Leaves has many references to the ocean and seafarers, but a direct reference is made to Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea by Billy Reston on p. 163. When he’s feeling sick, he says “shit, I haven’t felt this way since I went fishing for marlin,” reminding us of when Hemingway’s old fisherman, Santiago, becomes seasick. 

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Things are not always what they seem in the house. 

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"Karen and the children a mere blur racing down the staircase…"

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I used gimp to blur the image.