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"I wasn't sure how 'into' House of Leaves I was until I got directions to go to Appendix II D&E (page 70 in my edition) and oh my god. Decoding parts of Appendix E was such a uniquely awful and heartbreaking experience. I can't not read anything else in the book without this context. My mind is spiraling. It's all starting to click together. Recommend trying up to this point to see if HoL is for you" — Nov 07, 2025 04:38AM
"I wasn't sure how 'into' House of Leaves I was until I got directions to go to Appendix II D&E (page 70 in my edition) and oh my god. Decoding parts of Appendix E was such a uniquely awful and heartbreaking experience. I can't not read anything else in the book without this context. My mind is spiraling. It's all starting to click together. Recommend trying up to this point to see if HoL is for you" — Nov 07, 2025 04:38AM
“The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”
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“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
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is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
“The smell of near-black tea leaves torn from the green mountains of India that would travel to Britain without losing their moisture, and without losing the sharp perfume born of the tears Buddha shed for the world's suffering, suffering that also travels in tea: we drink green mountains and rain, and we also drink what the Queen drinks. We drink the Queen, we drink work, and we drink the broken back of the man bent double as he cuts the leaves, and the broken back of the man carrying them. Thanks to steam power, we no longer drink the lash of the whip on the oarsmen's backs. But we do drink choking coal miners. And that's the way of the world: everything alive lives off the death of someone or something else. Because nothing comes from nothing.”
― The Adventures of China Iron
― The Adventures of China Iron
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