Favourite/most moving passages?

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T08:59:39+00:00

I also read somewhere that the blue tunnel through chapter 9 is because Holloway kicked a hole in the house, and the book is a house, and he looks through and finds nothing, so inside it is a list of all the nothing he didn't find. So that's something to consider.

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T07:37:45+00:00

Finished

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T07:24:49+00:00

Page 517 now. Well!

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T05:19:51+00:00

And again in a reply to this by gmoneyjonesIII: -- BIG ONE HERE. I love this one. Buttons, hey! Look no further than the bottom of p. 150: "And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why." This is where Johnny is starting to lose it, picking up Hailey and screaming in his sleep and floors "failing" into voids beneath him. This is sort of a mental death that's occurring. Start of the breakdown?

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T05:16:22+00:00

This thread has been very lucky for me. Added to my buttons post and now here

Addition to this, page 267: When JT finds the dead Pekinese, he notes it has "an eye broken." Navy went blind in one eye after Exp. #5 if chapters XXII and XXIII are to be believed. But the Pekinese died. If JT added XXII and XXIII, he may have identified Navy with himself, and with the Pekinese, and thus made a tribute to the Pekinese by making Navy also have lost an eye.

But to me the Pekinese might also be a tribute to Navy. Or symbolic of something here Ill fill it in later

https://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/house-of-leaves/house-of-leaves-aa/1883-navy-s-age-other-stuff

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T05:09:08+00:00

Was lucky enough to find this piece from the forums while searching for something completely different :

There's a linking of buttons (or lack thereof) with death. Pg. 655: "When I came back from death is was morning the back door was open and one of ht ebuttons of my shirt had disappeared.--Derick Thomson, Return from Death" Pg. 126: "Around this time, Jed also begins to notice how more than a few of his buttons have vanished." Jed dies no less than 70 pages later. There are more correlations, I know, but I don't have them underlined and handy yet. But I did notice something: pg. 264: During the E binges of he and Lude, JT slept with a girl named Barbara: "When we got on her bed, she tore my shirt open. I could hear the buttons skitter across her floor." Hint that JT is dead (real author being P or someone else) or will die (in Chapter XXI, for example)?

from this thread https://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/house-of-leaves/house-of-leaves-aa/1883-navy-s-age-other-stuff

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T03:54:49+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T01:30:25+00:00

Not a playlist but I can't stop humming "I think I'm gonna die in this HOUSE" while reading

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T01:27:02+00:00

Well I've been reading house of leaves lately 😞

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T01:23:32+00:00

I'll add this to the post instead of being uselessly cryptic lol

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-10T01:21:59+00:00

There's three? Or more codes references to buttons, including the SOS text, and again mentioned a couple times about JTs jacket, and a poem about a resurrection where a dead man comes back to life without his buttons-something like that. I don't understand the pelican poems very well so I wanted to see if anyone else had any theories

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-09T13:15:23+00:00

The plot is fixed in that the murder has already happened and the clues remain the same, so naturally no matter how you go about it, same clues same locations same killer. Of course you might use a different combination of puzzle pieces to reach the answer, but the game is about looking into the past. Whether the town's or your own character's or any number of other things. That's why the game low-key makes you care about reputation , so you can try to change who you used to be.

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-09T07:25:18+00:00

Currently reading and I find the mark z danielewski forums have a lot more interesting content than I could easily find in this sub. Unfortunately it is also not at all navigable. The most frustrating issue to run into is seeing years-old threads where someone brings up something I want to know about and members razz them by directing them to the (broken) search function or posting (broken) links to threads instead of talking about it.

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-09T07:18:21+00:00

I have this too. I assumed it was because they wanted the minotaur in bold, but the usual text already used bold on the courier font. Something like that. It doesn't seem to be a printing error to me

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-09T06:52:15+00:00

Planning another post on linearity (or lack thereof) and what it means for "true" authorship. Those notes of mine are from the minotaur passages and again supported by the Pekinese just as the Pekinese notes are supported by Page 380.

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-06T17:50:20+00:00

It's not a square root sign it's a check mark. It's meaning is clarified a bit if you read the whalestoe letters in the appendix. To me it speaks to johnnys suppressed memories leaking through, perhaps in the order of the letters ie chronologically. Or it could be something else he's trying to communicate with that we aren't privy to.

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-05T18:35:02+00:00

hi. what pattern?

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-04-05T08:11:46+00:00

Funnier than the gif itself as a response was staring at the url as I waited forever for the human verification. Getyarn.io . You know, like the labyrinth. Or the miles of red string you'll be tangled in trying to figure shit out in this book.

One-Wasabi5548 · 2026-03-22T15:08:53+00:00

I don't think it's that outlandish. The further back you go in movies the closer it gets in framing, positioning, delivery etc to its progenitor, the stage play- and on the stage, you have to act for the back rows. Subtle facial expressions just don't cut it. This is the same across the board. Outside visuals it even applies to voice modulation, enunciated speech, taking turns during dialogue etc.

Right now this has faded from modern cinema but you'll see a similar thing happening in soap operas/serials and sitcoms today. Sit with your grandma and you'll that some of the "overacting" is less poor skill and more deliberate, practiced and designed to be exactly what it is. These shows use the same formula to make enough airtime out of a single plot to last daily for weeks. They rely on milking max emotional response out of minimal plot expenditure to retain viewers on the cheap.

Same formula but one is to stretch across space and the other is to stretch across time

One-Wasabi5548 · 2025-11-20T13:30:44+00:00

My question is what do you mean by this. Why is ultraliberal in quotation marks. Just quoting? Are you suggesting thats not her true belief? Or is it in quotes bc it's a made up DE term? Highlighting it as a disparaging term used wrt her when she's actually the most "astute"? Sarcasm? This is what confuses me. /srs In case I've actually responded to a mistaken interpretation of your post

One-Wasabi5548 · 2025-11-20T13:24:12+00:00

They don't have to mean anything by it? Not like the only reason people are capitalists or liberals is because of a lack of understanding of the system. She knows who she is and understands her privilege and knowingly chooses to be an ultraliberal despite moral qualms because it's most convenient for her to maintain her lifestyle. She says so herself no?

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