From ff99ba112d04639b90b66e67f8e1e369e0aabc72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zane Meyers Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 07:51:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2026-05-04 07:51:44 --- danielewski_2000_house.md | 8 +++++++ timestamped/2026-05-04_06-36-50.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 danielewski_2000_house.md create mode 100644 timestamped/2026-05-04_06-36-50.md diff --git a/danielewski_2000_house.md b/danielewski_2000_house.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..044f1f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/danielewski_2000_house.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +title: House of Leaves +tags: + - type/media/book +author: Mark Z. Danielewski +year: 2000 +--- +# House of Leaves diff --git a/timestamped/2026-05-04_06-36-50.md b/timestamped/2026-05-04_06-36-50.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f70d29d --- /dev/null +++ b/timestamped/2026-05-04_06-36-50.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +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.