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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It’s is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.” / pg. 527
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the ultimate self-help book, lol.

interested to see how navidson’s life is ruined from his obsession with the house even though he had a chance to walk away unharmed and untethered.
well…maybe he is actually tethered to the house.
a part (half) of him died there, if you know what i mean.

“In that place, the absence of an end finally became his own end.” / pg. 338

This pretty much sums up the entirety of the book so far.

“Not even the seeds of one pun are left to capriciously turn the mind aside and tropos is at the center of ‘trope’ and it means ‘turn.’” pg. 150 / Johnny Truant
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In the best state of confusion right now.

“Zampanò himself probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I’ve come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul.” / Johnny, pg. 31