Regarding Uncanny Leaves

Image by AlixanaEuphoria via Flickr - Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

"Through innovative typography and other devices, House of Leaves foregrounds its materiality, which depends on physical properties, though not in a naive or unequivocal way, because the number of physical properties that can be brought into play is essentially infinite. Of all the attributes we might potentially notice about a book, a small number are selected by the semiotic content and mobilized as resources so that they become part of the book's signifying practices. Materiality thus emerges from the interplay between physical attributes and semiotic components.
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Consequently, the story's architecture is envisioned not as a sequential narrative so much as alternative paths within the same immense labyrinth of fictional space-time that is also, and simultaneously, a rat's nest of inscription surfaces. Moreover, these surfaces prove as resistant to logical ordering as the House is to coherent mapping. Locating itself within these labyrinthine spaces, the text enfolds together the objects represented and the media used to represent them. At the same time, the text insists on its specificity as a print novel, showing a heightened self-awareness about its own materiality."
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'Twas a long night.
I be working on it, as I "must."

I think a grilled sandwich for breakfast would be most fabulous.



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