#navidsonblogging

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Johnny Truant is only 25!? He should be at the— What's that? He is at the club? oh, well... good for him. i guess

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This Valentine’s Day

It is the Romantic Comedy audiences have been waiting for

Based on the hit novel

with a story of truly inescapable love

House of Leaves

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the line constantly crossing out the word minotaur is like the thread used in the original myth

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i didn't know my House of Leaves bookmarks would be so appropriate

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ultimately house of leaves is a blind mans analysis of a documentary about a house, with footnotes added by someone spiralling

but thats wild enough that people’s theories are all over the place. Zampanò is Johnny’s grandfather but also made him up and everyone is just Jesus in purgatory

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The most defining feature of the minotaur in House of Leaves is the fact that he isnt there. Of the three main characters, navidson is in the maze but doesnt know he exists. It is implied Zampano is killed by the minotaur. Johnny gets coded as the minotaur while also living in fear of it. The etymology of the word echo…

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mfw the spine of the book is also an abyss for the character to fall into

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ugh okay i will probably add this later when i look up the proper vocab but

i just got to page 461 which has a small block of the letter X repeating, and a section in the center which are in bold.

the thing that gets me is that reading the book is what gives the context needed to “read” the image produced. cause its not just a random block of letters. its in the middle of an intense scene and suddenly: you can see what he sees. you learn that translation without knowing you would need it.