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

[Terrance]

Spencer Thiel wrote:
> 
> At 02:40 PM 5/15/00 -0400, Peter Giordano wrote:
> >It does have two strikes against it though [snip] it looks and feels a
> >lot, A LOT, like INFINITE JEST
> 
> and then Terrance wrote:
> 
> >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?
> 
> Sheesh what's with this group.  Whatever happened to not judging books by
> their cover.  Do you know how close I came to _not_ reading my first
> Pynchon, COL49, because the cover looked like a Fillmore poster for Moby
> Grape (you know, the one with the woman dancing and the drummer
> drumming)?  Who would have known that the pages contained therein would
> change my world forever? Sure House of Leaves is gimmicky beyond belief and
> it's got footnotes and a bunch of other annoying things.  But it's
> fun.  And I must admit that unlike IJ, the footnotes actually improve the book.

Yes, what a fool I am to Judge Books By their Covers. You
are right to Bring me To Book., but To Speak Without The
Book not Like A Book, the book in question Does Not Suit My
Book and besides, here I prefer to be the Man Of One Book.
Not that I encourage anyone to Take A Leaf Out Of my Book
and I apologize if my foolish comments have caused anyone to
consider taking their Names Off The Books. 

"Beware the man of one book." ---St. Thomas Aquinas

I will certainly give it a try, sounds like lotza fun, but
now my one book is too many in a pile of papers and I fear
that Kurtzman is about to start yelling, "Has anyone seen
Sam Lowry?"


PS Terry Reilly's essay in the Oak Review fits into our
current grgr episodes.