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