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+title: House of Leaves
+tags:
+  - type/media/book
+author: Mark Z. Danielewski
+year: 2000
+---
+# House of Leaves

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+id: 2026-05-04T06:36:50-0400
+title: 2026-05-04 06:36:50
+tags: []
+daily: "[[2026-05-04]]"
+---
+# 2026-05-04 06:36:50
+
+Yesterday I finished [[danielewski_2000_house]]
+after two and half years of picking it up only sporadically.
+(Physical books are too much responsibility)
+
+I am unsatisfied with most of the speculation about the story that exists online.
+Most of all I am not compelled by the popular idea
+that Zampanò invented _The Navidson Record_.
+Evidence for the theory seems to come down to two points:
+
+* **_The Navidson Record_ and most of Zampanò's sources do not exist,**
+    **even in Johnny Truant and the Editors' reality.**
+    I consider this point non-serious.
+    The face-value horror of the book is an entity with command of reality.
+    While it only appears to mess with space in the book,
+    it didn't feel like a stretch at all
+    to imagine that the entity had moved Zampanò from a different timeline,
+    or better yet, deleted all evidence of its existence
+    (present in _The Navidson Record_ and Zampanò's sources).
+
+* **Zampanò is personally invested in _The Navidson Record_.**
+    It is widely understood that _House of Leaves_
+    (by Zampanò, not the fictional book Navy reads in the _Record_)
+    is allegorical for Zampanò's blindness.
+    At times, Zampanò refers to Navy in the first person.
+    These do not prove he invented the narrative,
+    they only explain his motive for writing.