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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