House of Leaves (was Re: NP: James McElroy's Women and Men)

[Terrance]

Spencer Thiel wrote:

 Rest assured friend -- even those of us who call English
> our first language can't understand what is going on in McElroy's books.

Now how are we English speaking people ever going to
persuade the rest of the world to give up their languages
and learn OUR greater language? 

> 
> So I put down Women and Men and picked up _House of Leaves_.   I still
> haven't put it down.  My recommendation: run out and pick up a copy for
> yourself (word from the bookstore that I purchased my copy at is that there
> aren't going to be any more copies printed ever -- probably b.s., but
> that's what they said). Very gimmicky, but still one of the most
> entertaining books that I've read in a long time.


I picked it up and set it back down, looked kinda maddening.
Why with all those scraps and internet cuts pasted, some in
living color. And are some of the pages total and absolute
blanks? By Lewis, I think someone should put a stop to this.
Nope, I like to  tingle my bell like any good captain on a
hunt but my fragile mind and idiot's grasp of the language
can not tolerate such "A cock and Bull" even if it is one of
its very best of its kinds, I've never read. And so I
regret, kind sir, that I am not going to read that book. 

Yrs in jest, 

Laurence S. Minor 

Broadmoor Criminal Luatic Asylum

PS That Nicholas Spencer essay in the Oaky Law Review is
almost Perfect!