Any comments on ' House of Leaves'?

The Great Quail quail at libyrinth.com
Fri Oct 20 10:07:38 CDT 2000


>Just rejoined the list after a few months break.
>Any comments on 'House of Leaves' been posted ?

I am actually working on a "formal review" for a different mailing 
list; but I I did write blurbs on Joycean and Borgesian allusions and 
influences in "House of Leaves."

The blurb below contains an excerpt from the text that mentions 
Pynchon (Footnote 167), and has a few links to good "House of Leaves" 
-oriented Web sites:

http://www.TheModernWord.com/borges/borges_infl_danielewski.html

(This page links also to the similar Joycean blurb.)

I really enjoyed the book, though I have a few reservations regarding 
the "ending," and some aspects of characterization. It is definitely 
worth reading, though.....

--Quail

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"Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick 
as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of 
whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde 
from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, 
what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede 
(since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us 
of Emailia!"
          --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake



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