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House of Leaves

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House of Leaves	comment	House of Leaves is a 2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's about Johnny Truant, a tattoo shop apprentice who finds the disheveled remains of a complex manuscript one night. The manuscript contains an amateurish critical dissertation, written by a recently deceased old man allegedly named ZampanÃ²; on the topic of a film called The Navidson Record, made by photographer Will Navidson. Although ZampanÃ²'s text refers elaborately and lovingly to existing literature, Johnny soon finds out that the vast majority of ZampanÃ²'s cited sources do not actually exist. Neither, for that matter, does the film. On top of that, ZampanÃ² was totally blind.The supposed plot of The Navidson Record is as follows: Will Navidson is a world-renowned photojournalist with lingering family problems, Karen Green is a former model with self-esteem issues, and Chad and Daisy are their two lovable children. Will decides to make this move-in a documentary of how he got his life back on track, and he mounts video cameras and microphones in different rooms of the house. About a month after they move in, the family goes to visit Karen's parents. When they return, there's a new addition to the house, a closet with a connecting doorway, between the master bedroom and Chad and Daisy's room. Furthermore, out of curiosity, Will measures the inside of the house compared with the outside to find out something startling: the inside is bigger than the outside by one-quarter of an inch.XThe Navidson Record has, if ZampanÃ²'s writing is to be believed, spurred countless theses and criticisms from academia, both for its moving themes and character studies but also for the perplexing riddle of the house and what it truly represents. And as Johnny cobbles together the assertions of ZampanÃ² into a coherent narrative, adding his own thoughts and made-up ramblings and freely inserting edits into the main text, something about him starts to slip... something linked to Pelafina Heather LiÃ¨vre, a woman who was once locked up inside the Three Attic Whalestoe Institute.House of Leaves is presented as Johnny's attempts to make sense of it all, aided by elaborate literary criticism, footnotes, references to poetry in at least half a dozen languages, as well as photographs, collages, scribblings and old letters. It was originally released, for free and incomplete, on the Internet; this release as well as its reception are addressed in later print versions of the book. Everything about the story may be seen Through the Eyes of Madness. Though considering the eyes which read it are your own...Poe, Danielewski's sister, created a music album called Haunted which serves as a companion piece to the novel; Danielewski even appears on the album, reciting a section of the novel on her rock radio hit "Hey Pretty" and he is also featured in the song's video. The Whalestoe Letters, a companion book, was later partially included in updated reprints of House of Leaves.Compare TlÃ¶n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Not to be confused with House of Five Leaves, The House of Blue Leaves and certainly not with Dead Leaves or the Leaf House.Beware of spoilers, given as a lot of the experience of House of Leaves has less to do with twists in the plot and more to do with interesting and unsettling storytelling and page format — such things are generally unmarked below.
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House of Leaves / int_108d1ef0	comment	Mainstream Obscurity: The Navidson Record is stated In-Universe to be subject to this. It had an extremely limited theatrical run and was only a modest success on home video, but it rapidly came to be regarded as a towering masterwork of American cinema, with every single frame of it painstakingly dissected, analyzed, and debated by legions of critics and academics with more obsession and passion than the Bible and the Zapruder Film put together.
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House of Leaves / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
House of Leaves / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: ZampanÃ² is heavily based on Jorge Luis Borges.
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House of Leaves / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
House of Leaves / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Pelafina, if you decode one of her letters. That is, if she's not completely nuts and making up or hallucinating the whole thing. Near the end of the book, Johnny rapes Kyrie, though he later states that she simply drove off and the whole thing never happened. It's left ambiguous which version of events is true.
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House of Leaves / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
House of Leaves / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: ZampanÃ²'s death opens the way for Johnny Truant to learn of the mind destroying mystery of The Navidson Record.
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House of Leaves / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
House of Leaves / int_141a6acb	comment	Johnny mostly maintains a pretty down-to-earth, conversational style of writing, but some of his flights of fancy become so abstract that they're extremely hard to interpret. His mother Pelafina also has a flowery, almost whimsical style of writing which degenerates into a terrifying Madness Mantra as her illness worsens.
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House of Leaves / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
House of Leaves / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Tom, while alone at the top of the Spiral Staircase, keeps poking fun at "Mr. Monster" and the house in general. When he finally musters the courage to descend the stairs, the whole thing stretches vertically, while the opening at the top scrunches up into an oval before becoming circular again. Tom justifiably shuts up and climbs back out to the top.
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House of Leaves / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
House of Leaves / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The real Delial. Commented on, as Johnny is fully aware that ZampanÃ² is describing a real photograph and weaving a fictionalised version of it into the Navidson narrative.
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House of Leaves / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
House of Leaves / int_17ce80aa	comment	In the typographically screwiest section of the book, two sections of red text are shaped like a key (introducing the Greek mythos of the Minotaur) and a lock (speaking about finding truth in documentaries.) Knowing the mythos of the Minotaur and digging deeper into the text (as The Navidson Record is presented as a documentary) will allow the reader to uncover the true story hidden within the labyrinth that is the book's text.
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House of Leaves / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
House of Leaves / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: All of them — there are at least three, one of whom introduces himself by recounting an outlandish story he told a group of girls. He further admits that he regularly makes up such stories and at one point admits that he's altered some of the text he is presenting as truth, and later he admits that one chapter was an outright lie, and then laughs at you for believing it.
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House of Leaves / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
House of Leaves / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In The Navidson Record and one of ZampanÃ²'s miscellaneous poems. And not just Title Drop but Self Drop — Johnny runs into a band (the real-world book's author's sister's) on his search for the house which has read the version of House of Leaves]] originally released online, including footnotes and edits by Johnny and The Editors.
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House of Leaves / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
House of Leaves / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: "A Poe t" in the "What Some Have Thought" interlude is implied to be Mark Z. Danielewski's sister, singer-songwriter Anne Danielewski, stage name Poe.
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House of Leaves / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
House of Leaves / int_1d029135	comment	The deepest level of the story is The Navidson Record, the documentary film that Will Navidson makes about the titular Haunted House. Of course, since this is a novel, we're not actually seeing The Navidson Record itself, we're experiencing it as filtered through...
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House of Leaves / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
House of Leaves / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Done several times: ZampanÃ²'s certain that, despite the Navidsons surviving the ordeal of the house and their relationships considerably strengthened, that something dark happened to them after they moved out. ZampanÃ²'s heart attack/death at the hands of what might just be the House taking its revenge. Johnny's psych-out on the reader after claiming that a friend checked in on him, took him in, and got him clean and straight... nope. Everything, instead, got worse.
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House of Leaves / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
House of Leaves / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Johnny's notes and commentary start out as this, but as they intrude farther into the main text they arguably become the chief plot thread of the novel.
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House of Leaves / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
House of Leaves / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the middle of one of his crazed ramblings, Truant begins to suspect that he, ZampanÃ², and the Navidsons don't really exist and have been created by the house in some way. That sound you hear is the author laughing to himself. At one point toward the end of the book, Navidson begins reading the book. The book you're reading. The book that talks about Navidson reading a book. Navidson finishes the book before the book finishes. Narrator Johnny at one point tells the reader he just totally made up his last few entries. And mocks you because you should have noticed the conspicuous lack of swear words in those entries, that should have given away they're fake!
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House of Leaves / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
House of Leaves / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: The house invokes this on many levels. What if you were lost in the dark with no idea how to get out? What if something you couldn't see was hunting you? What if one day you couldn't trust the place you lived anymore? What if your entire understanding of the world is wrong?
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House of Leaves / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
House of Leaves / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Johnny and Lude seemingly live only to have sex with as many women and consume as many mind-altering substances as they can.
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House of Leaves / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
House of Leaves / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: ZampanÃ² references a play that reimagines the story of the Minotaur so that the monster is actually a disabled boy locked away by his cruel stepfather Minos. Theseus is portrayed as a stupid, violent thug who brutally murders an innocent. Johnny has a hallucination in which he's the Minotaur and is being attacked by a drunk frat boy with an axe, clearly a modern-day version of that Theseus.
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House of Leaves / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
House of Leaves / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: ZampanÃ² tried to avoid invoking the darkness or the "Minotaur" as much as he could, even crossing it out. At times, the house itself becomes this — Johnny thinks it's what caused him to spill a bunch of ink on papers that would have scientifically examined the house.
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House of Leaves / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
House of Leaves / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: Soon after discovery, Navidson's lover begins to snap and fight with Navidson, Navidson's associates begin arguing constantly (to the point that one of them goes completely nuts), and the children get more violent.
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House of Leaves / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
House of Leaves / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: Johnnie has had plastic surgery to the point of Body Horror and can casually toss a dog with enough force to shatter its skull. It's implied she might be some manifestation of the Minotaur, but that's assuming that she exists to begin with.
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House of Leaves / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
House of Leaves / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Karen's bookshelf. Early on, displacing a book would cause others to fall over, only to be stopped by the opposite wall. Later on, however, displacing the same book causes the rest to fall onto the floor, proving to Karen that the house is capable of changing its dimensions. Subverted and probably lampshaded when Johnny, in his paranoia, buys a bunch of actual guns, but never uses them for anything.
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House of Leaves / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
House of Leaves / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: ZampanÃ² posits that the house changes its configuration based on the mindsets of those inside it. He describes how Holloway wanted a big adventure, so the house presents itself as expansive; whereas Navidson wanted to find everyone inside quickly and thus got a much shorter trip.
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House of Leaves / int_254fb9cb	type	Anti-Climax
House of Leaves / int_254fb9cb	comment	Anticlimax: What lies at the bottom of the Spiral Staircase? More hallways.
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House of Leaves / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
House of Leaves / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: Or at least bittersweet, and only for the Navidson family: Navidson manages to make it out of the final expedition alive, despite the house spawning bottomless pit after bottomless pit and eventually trapping him in infinite darkness. He gets out, the kids return to normal (mostly), marries Karen, and moves away. The house itself is cordoned off.
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House of Leaves / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
House of Leaves / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Downplayed with ZampanÃ², who insists on exclusively being read to by attractive young women, but never comes onto them. It's really just a way for him to try and alleviate some of his crushing loneliness.
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House of Leaves / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
House of Leaves / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: David Copperfield makes the Statue of Liberty disappear in the middle of an interview about the House.
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House of Leaves / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
House of Leaves / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kyrie seems to be much nicer and more intelligent than Johnny's usual lays, until it's revealed that she's the one who sicced Gdansk Man on him and Lude, telling him that Johnny hit on her despite the fact that Kyrie came on to him first.
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House of Leaves / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
House of Leaves / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Many occurrences, either to parody the frequent use of foreign languages in academic writing or to simply add confusion to the text. For example, Johnny states that he can't speak Latin, yet is able to allude to a Latin phrase later on. ZampanÃ² provides a series of quotes he claims to be slightly different, but which are actually identical in meaning. Some of the translations of footnotes have obvious differences from the original, such as missing the last sentence.
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House of Leaves / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
House of Leaves / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: Many acronyms hidden in the text.
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House of Leaves / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
House of Leaves / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: The house has a way of destroying people's self-conceptions. Let's review... Will Navidson, world famous photojournalist and Vietnam vet, dating a supermodel, whose narcissism is subtle but corrosive to everyone around him. Over the course of his odyssey he completely loses control of nearly everything in his life, starting with the very space he lives in, progressing to his brother, his lover, his children, his profession, and finally pieces of his own body. He lives and makes some sort of peace with himself, but at the end is a deeply humbled and traumatized man. Karen Green, considered one of the most beautiful people on earth, whose own narcissism more than matches Navidson's, causing mutual isolation and strife in their relationship which catches almost everyone around them in the crossfire, most notably their children. The traumatic events she endures break down her emotional barriers and cause her to finally admit to herself how much she needs Navidson. At the end of the film, they've finally stopped dancing around the issue and are Happily Married. Holloway Roberts, an intensely proud and competitive man who butts heads with Navidson over control of the explorations and whose only real goal is to conquer the house the same way he'd conquer any other mountain or cave system. He soon learns he's bitten off more than he can chew, and his lack of control over the situation draws out his long-simmering feelings of worthlessness and humiliation, driving him to a pointless, self-destructive frenzy.
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House of Leaves / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
House of Leaves / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Tom, to cheer himself up inside the labyrinth, tells himself the joke this trope is named after. Subverted for Johnny, who narrates being attacked by something while working in the tattoo shop and during this attack, pooping and peeing in his pants in fear; then turns out the Brown Note part of the story didn't happen after all and he just imagined that (whether the Monster (attack) is real or not, is left ambiguous). Around this time it should be getting obvious Johnny is an Unreliable Narrator...
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House of Leaves / int_2bbe31c9	type	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
House of Leaves / int_2bbe31c9	comment	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: The children, Chad and Daisy, thoroughly scare their teacher with their black, creepy drawings. Daisy also creeps her father out when she asks him to play with her, at first believing she said "I wanna play always!" and later realizing she actually had said "I wanna play hallways", referring to the House.
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House of Leaves / int_2c77fae3	type	Darkness Equals Death
House of Leaves / int_2c77fae3	comment	Darkness Equals Death: Literally. When Holloway dies, the darkness descends on him and consumes him. ZampanÃ² is extremely vague about the process itself - whether the shadows just fall on his body, or literally rip the flesh from his bones.
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House of Leaves / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
House of Leaves / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: As well as being quite the Sir Swears-a-Lot, Johnny is almost more eloquent than ZampanÃ².
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House of Leaves / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
House of Leaves / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Holloway, who is driven to violent madness by the house and eventually kills one of his fellow explorers.
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House of Leaves / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
House of Leaves / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Johnny, for all of his self-destructive behaviour and ignorance to higher learning, knows a lot about art, poetry and mathematics.
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House of Leaves / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
House of Leaves / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Johnny's dream where he himself is the Minotaur seems to suggest this.
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House of Leaves / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
House of Leaves / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: There are entire paragraphs written entirely in German and French throughout the book, as well as untranslated chunks of The Divine Comedy and bits of Latin and Greek, plus various others. Johnny even comments on the pretentiousness of ZampanÃ² dropping in bits of foreign language where they don't seem to serve any purpose other than making him look erudite.
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House of Leaves / int_3081bed	type	Unseen Evil
House of Leaves / int_3081bed	comment	Unseen Evil: The Minotaur is never shown.
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House of Leaves / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
House of Leaves / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Almost literally. Johnny finds a stray Pekingese dog, and one of his off-again on-again female "friends", a spoiled Valley Girl Rich Bitch, coos over it and promises she'll take care of it and takes it home. No sooner than her overpriced car zooms past Johnny, she hurls the dog out the window past him, crushing half its skull. The Minotaur or whatever it was that killed ZampanÃ² apparently went out of its way to systematically kill and mutilate his cats first.
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House of Leaves / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
House of Leaves / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: Johnny Truant, a tattoo artist with a poetic streak whose mind starts to fall apart when confronted with the mystery of The Navidson Record.
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House of Leaves / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
House of Leaves / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Page 100. In French, too.
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House of Leaves / int_39d4257b	type	Found Footage Films
House of Leaves / int_39d4257b	comment	Found Footage Films: The Navidson Record bears many traits of this genre. Although it was not exactly "found", considering that Navidson and Karen did survive to tell (and edit the footage of) the tale.
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House of Leaves / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
House of Leaves / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: ZampanÃ² fits the character type, with his tendency to prefer the incredible to the mundane; for example, he's more willing to accept the stairway is deeper than the Earth is wide than he is to just check his math.
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House of Leaves / int_3a6efd9d	type	Unnecessarily Large Interior
House of Leaves / int_3a6efd9d	comment	Unnecessarily Large Interior: The Anteroom, the Great Hall, and the Spiral Staircase are all utterly titanic spaces, far larger than anything humans are even capable of building. The lattermost is implied to be deeper than the entire circumference of the planet.
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House of Leaves / int_3a781509	type	Most Writers Are Male
House of Leaves / int_3a781509	comment	Most Writers Are Male: In-universe example. Film critic Camille Paglia deems Karen's fear of the dark and anxiety over the house to be "pure fabrication" devised by a male scriptwriter, on the basis that "women are darkness".
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House of Leaves / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
House of Leaves / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Sweet merciful Jesus. Trying to figure out where the fourth wall is drawn is much the same as trying to figure out, well...where any other walls are located in the House on Ash Tree Lane. Towards the end of the story, Johnny finds this book. Navidson burns this book. The same book that is describing the two of them finding and reading it as they read about each other's stories of finding the book they're both reading...
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House of Leaves / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
House of Leaves / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The book continuously tells you that Navidson made it out of the house to edit the footage together.
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House of Leaves / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
House of Leaves / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: House of Leaves is a book in the book. Navidson burns it to help him survive his final trek.
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House of Leaves / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
House of Leaves / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Navidsons' story ends this way. After surviving the horrors of the titular house, while Will is permanently disabled, multiple other characters are dead, and Will and Karen might never forget their horrific experience, the Navidson family grows closer, to the point where Will and Karen officially marry. Even lampshaded when it's mentioned that, despite showing them getting married, Will's physical disabilities are pointed out, and it can't truly be called a happy ending.
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House of Leaves / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
House of Leaves / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: As one of his amanuenses complains, ZampanÃ² writes "like a freshman" who should get a C- at best, conveying his scanty insights in a tone of lofty certainty, dragging in basic summaries of well-known subjects, attempting to impress with irrelevant precision and lengthy quotations, and in general b.s.-ing for all he's worth. It's implied this is intentional on his part.
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House of Leaves / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
House of Leaves / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Daisy's scenes during Navidson's explorations. Oh, boy.
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House of Leaves / int_42148628	type	Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
House of Leaves / int_42148628	comment	Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory: ZampanÃ²'s manuscript alleges that The Navidson Records has been absolutely picked apart by scholars and academics, several of which wrote entire novels as to the nature of its symbolism. He includes quotes from dozens of them, with their interpretations varying from subdued to borderline self-parody. Stephen King's in-universe interview with Karen hangs a lampshade on this:
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House of Leaves / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
House of Leaves / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: For Johnny. It is mentioned that he disappeared, but his final chapter, while ending on a cautiously hopeful but crushingly melancholic note, does nothing to clear up his eventual fate. A common theory supposes that he either ceases to exist here, or never existed to begin with.
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House of Leaves / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
House of Leaves / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Tom Navidson, who disappears suddenly when the house decides to go completely insane and actively, aggressively attack the family.
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House of Leaves / int_444154b8	type	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book
House of Leaves / int_444154b8	comment	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: When Chad and Daisy are asked at school to draw their house, both kids paint a big black square, colored in several coats of black, surrounded by monsters.
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House of Leaves / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
House of Leaves / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Johnny has a natural talent for this. He mostly uses it to make up bullshit stories about his past to pick up girls.
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House of Leaves / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
House of Leaves / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: The Yggdrasil poem after the index basically serves as this.
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House of Leaves / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
House of Leaves / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Really, really big. Like, impossibly big. Like older than the solar system big.
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House of Leaves / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
House of Leaves / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Will Navidson is a handsome, charismatic, and brave man acclaimed the world over for his completely peerless photojournalism, dating someone who might as well be the World's Most Beautiful Woman, but even before things go out of control he's secretly a mess of depression, neuroses, trauma, commitment issues, and unchecked narcissistic tendencies which are slowly but surely tearing his life apart. Only after a lot more suffering inflicted upon him by his new place of residence does he start to improve.
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House of Leaves / int_48f0ca7f	type	PostModernism
House of Leaves / int_48f0ca7f	comment	Postmodernism: Maybe the book, is, in fact, the labyrinth. There certainly isn't a labyrinth anymore after Navidson burns a copy of House of Leaves. With perhaps an equal degree of straight and parody of post-modernism. Of course, it's impossible to actually parody post-modernism so the effect just becomes even more recursive which becomes even more the point.
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House of Leaves / int_49b1fe0	type	Beige Prose
House of Leaves / int_49b1fe0	comment	Beige Prose: Occasional, used for contrast. See "A Poe t"'s comments on A Partial Transcript Of What Some Have Thought.
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House of Leaves / int_4e11940e	type	Mythical Motifs
House of Leaves / int_4e11940e	comment	Mythical Motifs: Lots of them, most of them Greek. Most obvious is the prominent inclusion of the Minotaur and the labyrinth, but ZampanÃ² also devotes an entire chapter to analyzing the myth of Echo and Narcissus as it relates to the scientific concept of echoes and, by extension, the practical and psychological struggles presented in The Navidson Record. More subtle are the references to Yggdrasil, which actually permeate the novel if you know what to look for, as well as all the Biblical references, which are far too numerous to list here.
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House of Leaves / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
House of Leaves / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: There are quite a few of these in Johnny's footnotes. He was blind as a bat. Fortunately, we had a life raft to cower in and almost everyone survived. Almost. "I've never been to Texas."
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House of Leaves / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
House of Leaves / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Johnny is a skinny drug addict with serious mental health issues and gigantic burn scars on his arms, but women just seem to throw themselves at him. Of course, Johnny is also an Unreliable Narrator who frequently experiences visions of fantastic destruction...Though his experience with Hailey is at least confirmed real by the other editor.
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House of Leaves / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
House of Leaves / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The book is printed in four colors, although there are some variations between the different versions. Normal text is printed in black, and the word "house" always appears in blue, including in the title, copyright information, etc. note One "house" (remastered full color edition) escaped blueing, though. Happy searching. Mythological references are in red, as are struck-out passages which are, according to Truant, things ZampanÃ² wanted to leave out. They are usually passages that are at least vaguely threatening to the reader. "Minotaur" may or may not be struck out, depending on if it's used in one of the aforementioned mythological references. Purple is used only three times, but it's supposedly very important. It's used on the cover for the words "A Novel", "First Edition", and towards the end of the story: "[...], that I'm remembering now, [...]" Bear in mind that: a) Johnny associates purple with his mother, b) purple is made by combining red and blue, and c) the story he's remembering is about a mother trying to care for her brain-damaged newborn in the hospital before it dies.. Make of that what you will... The color blue is meant to be used to something akin to Chroma Key. The Chroma Key reference means that the house is meant to be an entity that is projected on to. ZampanÃ², Johnny, and the readers all project as much into the house as Navidson or Holloway. When the team begins to explore the house, the left and right margins of the page expand and fill with footnotes, blacking out the sides much like the ashen walls of the hallways. These footnotes instantly become recursive, folding back on themselves like a labyrinth; reading only the narrative portion in this section allows the reader to pass to the exit. At one point during the exploration, Holloway breaks a hole in the wall of one room and peers through it, hoping to see something different. A small square appears beside this paragraph, containing a footnote explaining every single thing Holloway did not see through that hole. This square hole and the footnote go on for 26 pages, ending on a completely black square. On some pages, the lines are typed at angles or go around the edges of geometric shapes, with the rest of the page being white space. Other pages fill a borderless geometric shape with text. Many of these pages echo the action of what is happening in the book at that moment. Other pages are blank except for footnotes, akin to a held cinematic shot. Jed getting shot in the head on Reel 10, Frames 192-205 of The Navidson Record happens across pages 192-205 of the book. Those pages are in Chapter 10 of the book. In the typographically screwiest section of the book, two sections of red text are shaped like a key (introducing the Greek mythos of the Minotaur) and a lock (speaking about finding truth in documentaries.) Knowing the mythos of the Minotaur and digging deeper into the text (as The Navidson Record is presented as a documentary) will allow the reader to uncover the true story hidden within the labyrinth that is the book's text. In The Whalestoe Letters, the typeface becomes larger and more erratic as Pelafina's mental state deteriorates, eventually blacking out pages with typography layered over itself in every direction. Most of the footnotes are numbered sequentially, these are the footnotes provided by the editors either to provide references or space for Johnny's notes. However, there are also non-numbered footnotes using various wingdings in shapes semi-relevant to the story beats (such as the Greek letters and alchemical symbols in the Narcissus and Echo sequence) which supposedly were ZampanÃ²'s own.
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House of Leaves / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
House of Leaves / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Karen...possibly. Although her estranged half sister told the world that the two of them were raped by their stepfather, she never confirms this. But it's hinted to be the source of her fear of the dark. Navidson's dream about the well echoes Karen's supposed past, hinting that it may be true and she may have told him about it.
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House of Leaves / int_52bdb4ad	type	Tentative Light
House of Leaves / int_52bdb4ad	comment	Tentative Light: The climax. In an interesting twist, Navidson burns a book titled House of Leaves to give him light. And in doing so, he may have saved himself. Possibly.
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House of Leaves / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
House of Leaves / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Lude.
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House of Leaves / int_5321053	type	In the Doldrums
House of Leaves / int_5321053	comment	In the Doldrums: The interior of the house.
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House of Leaves / int_53322bef	type	New House, New Problems
House of Leaves / int_53322bef	comment	New House, New Problems: The inner story all starts when the Navidson family moves into what they think is the place that will solve their relationship problems. At the end, after everything they have gone through in / with the House, their relationship is actually much better, subverting the Trope.
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House of Leaves / int_533d53a0	type	Fantasy Americana
House of Leaves / int_533d53a0	comment	Fantasy Americana: It takes place entirely in the United States and not only features strong and undeniable supernatural elements, but takes great care to give them mythic weight and resonance.
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House of Leaves / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
House of Leaves / int_54f999c	comment	Pelafina, if you decode one of her letters. That is, if she's not completely nuts and making up or hallucinating the whole thing.
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House of Leaves / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
House of Leaves / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: Karen (a former model) is described as so beautiful that she's constantly hit on, especially during her interviews, where both men and women try to ask her on a date.
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House of Leaves / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
House of Leaves / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The house itself is in some way alive and intelligent. And not particularly friendly at that.
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House of Leaves / int_59af9477	type	Delinquents
House of Leaves / int_59af9477	comment	Delinquents: Johnny was one in his youth. Constantly getting into fights, in and out of various abusive foster homes and boarding schools, and implied to be sexually active at a distressingly early age, it's safe to say that a lot of his current mental instability stems from this time.
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House of Leaves / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
House of Leaves / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Several. One chapter is dedicated to scientific analysis of various materials recovered from the house. Sounds like it would answer a lot of questions, right? Well, Johnny says he accidentally destroyed most of the manuscript for that chapter. That's not the Unreveal, though — right after the missing analysis it's stated there was nothing unusual about the materials. (So basically we've just been spared a lot of pointless chemical semi-Techno Babble when we don't get the full analysis.) Except for the part that the different samples were from different ages, up to the point that part of the labyrinth is older than the solar system and is the same material as asteroids. Basically the house is just saying "screw you(r mind)" at any attempts at making sense of it. Meanwhile, at various points in the story, there will be footnotes asking the reader to refer to some document numbered Exhibit One through Six — all six exhibits have no actual content and are just notes by ZampanÃ² to remind himself to write them. Karen Green had apparently traveled the world and showed the exploration films to various celebrities, such as Woz, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, among others, and recorded their thoughts of it, and what the house means. Truant decides to contact these celebrities — all he gets is a letter from a composer who claims he never heard of Karen or the house, and an insulting postcard from a feminist Karen interviewed. And yet, a French-Israeli author had seen proof of the interviews... Finally, there's Navidson's Dream #3, which is described as "more troubling and by far most terrifying" and otherwise made to sound interesting. It's entirely missing, but instead we get the genuine reveal of Johnny finally remembering one of his own nightmares.
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House of Leaves / int_5b415ef2	type	BottomlessPit
House of Leaves / int_5b415ef2	comment	Bottomless Pit: The final form taken by the labyrinth in Exploration #5. Tom falls into one earlier when the house starts freaking out.
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House of Leaves / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
House of Leaves / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: ZampanÃ² mentions that this trope is averted whenever Will Navidson himself was filming, him being an expert photo- and cinematographer and all. Naturally, the quality of the framing rapidly diminishes whenever anyone else is doing the filming.
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House of Leaves / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
House of Leaves / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Well past the optical nerve.
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House of Leaves / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
House of Leaves / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: Anyone who is vaguely connected to the house, even the Sheriff who tries to find Holloway and denies seeing the hallway, has tinnitus, at the very least. It's also noted that experience with the house eventually results in one of two extremes: either great personal improvement or, well... look at what happened to Johnny. There's an actual 1-10 rating scale (based on physiological and psychological effects the House has on a person) to rate the effects of the house has on people depending on exposure... and "anyone" includes you.
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House of Leaves / int_5db7301f	type	Prophetic Names
House of Leaves / int_5db7301f	comment	Prophetic Names: Johnny Truant, known for skipping both school and work (for vastly different reasons).
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House of Leaves / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
House of Leaves / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Lude. Truant even spies on him, and there is an extremely large list of his one-night stands... which is then followed by a list of the various ways in which all of the people of the list might have had their lives ruined. The book is just messed up like that. Johnny seems to rack 'em up. Keep in mind that Johnny is the one telling his story.
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House of Leaves / int_5ec27210	type	Sleeps with Everyone but You
House of Leaves / int_5ec27210	comment	Sleeps with Everyone but You: Johnny and Thumper both have this for each other. While their attraction is mutual and intense and each Really Gets Around, they never actually sleep with each other.
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House of Leaves / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
House of Leaves / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: Footnote 75 consists mostly of a list of names of (supposed) photographers that spans nearly three whole pages. Footnote 144 emphasizes that the house is bare of fixtures or furnishing by listing, fairly exhaustively, everything it doesn't have.
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House of Leaves / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
House of Leaves / int_62434fe2	comment	Which is then compiled and analyzed by a group of unnamed editors. But of course, considering what happened to all those above them, you have to wonder what happened to those editors after finishing the book...
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House of Leaves / int_624b1791	type	LivingLabyrinth
House of Leaves / int_624b1791	comment	Living Labyrinth: The house seems to be one.
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House of Leaves / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
House of Leaves / int_63b02752	comment	Raymond is a former Marine, and while it's not mentioned if he saw combat anywhere, the man's intense Hair-Trigger Temper and alcoholic tendencies are undoubtedly connected to his service.
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House of Leaves / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
House of Leaves / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: ZampanÃ²'s full name, if he ever had one, is never revealed.
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House of Leaves / int_66b98472	type	Erotic Dream
House of Leaves / int_66b98472	comment	Erotic Dream: Painstakingly detailed ones at that...
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House of Leaves / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
House of Leaves / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: See "Footnote Fever." Also some pages are backwards or upside down.
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House of Leaves / int_67c30747	type	Fetish Retardant
House of Leaves / int_67c30747	comment	Fetish Retardant: Used deliberately with "Johnnie", a porn star who's had so much work done she barely looks human.
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House of Leaves / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
House of Leaves / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The house. Especially behind that one door that leads into the maze. Hallways that can go on almost forever - and adjust to the expectations of who enters them. The hallways are also continually rearranging themselves. The first sign things are about to get really creepy, at the beginning of the book: a closet room suddenly appears between two other rooms in the house, where there wasn't one before. Freaks Will and Karen out big time; but then they discover the maze and it gets taken up to eleven.
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House of Leaves / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
House of Leaves / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Johnny, especially in his youth, a trait he evidently inherited from his mother.
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House of Leaves / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
House of Leaves / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Eventually Truant's studio apartment has all-black walls covered in random scraps of paper with drawings of empty black hallways on them, homemade soundproofing made of egg cartons, aluminum foil covering the windows, and tape measures on every wall so he knows the minute the place starts expanding. ZampanÃ²'s room also counts. Boxes of paper and scraps, some of which are littered onto the floor, and the strange gouge marks all over the place.
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House of Leaves / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
House of Leaves / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Johnny mostly maintains a pretty down-to-earth, conversational style of writing, but some of his flights of fancy become so abstract that they're extremely hard to interpret. His mother Pelafina also has a flowery, almost whimsical style of writing which degenerates into a terrifying Madness Mantra as her illness worsens. ZampanÃ²'s writing could be considered the academic version of this. He often picks out some concept tenuously connected to the The Navidson Record and then goes on about it for pages and pages, waxing philosophical about its meaning and including flowery quotes about the topic. The end result comes across like someone who wants desperately to show off what a widely read deep thinker they are, combined with a student grasping for things to fill the requisite page amount.
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House of Leaves / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
House of Leaves / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: The Navidson Record is, at least. Johnny's story could be this, but it's likely that it isn't.
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House of Leaves / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
House of Leaves / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: The story is entirely based around the idea that the reader is reading a manuscript found by the editor — who tells his own story in footnotes, including events that reference the effect of the book on the real world and an encounter with the author's sister's band, Poe, who released an album "Haunted" from the point of view of one of the characters of the story. There are further layers to this metaphysical tale, and it includes and subverts any number of science fiction, horror and fiction tropes. There's also the author of the manuscript's claim that not only is The Navidson Record real, despite the editor's insistence that no such documentary exists, but also that the characters are real people and that Karen was the one who arranged for the tapes to be compiled. And then, in the last appendix of the book, there are pictures that imply that ZampanÃ² might be right and The Navidson Record might actually be real.
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House of Leaves / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
House of Leaves / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Karen getting the house to let Navidson go. This is also what helps Navidson escape the labyrinth when he gets stranded alone at the bottom of the staircase.
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House of Leaves / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
House of Leaves / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The Navidson Record. Everyone who's anyone, and most people who aren't, have analyzed, reviewed, or called attention to it. It's also, apparently, an extremely studied film in psychology, and has numerous theories about why Navidson, even though he knows the danger of the house, keeps descending into it. Except that, even within the universe the book purports to be from, there is no evidence the film ever existed, and none of the people ZampanÃ² quotes about it have ever made those statements.
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House of Leaves / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
House of Leaves / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Evidently the primary characteristic of the Minotaur.
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House of Leaves / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
House of Leaves / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: The events in Johnny's life that he writes as asides mirror the contents of The Navidson Record. When Will starts opening up about his true feelings and his one failure in life, Johnny starts writing less pompously and opens up about his mother, leading to The Whalestoe Letters in one of the Appendices. When the creature in the hallways is first discussed, Johnny is attacked by some presence late at night at the tattoo shop. There's also several other narrative parallels between Johnny and the Navidsons, as well as Johnny and Pelafina, that fill in some narrative gaps.
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House of Leaves / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
House of Leaves / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Holloway Roberts: "hollow way" = "hallow way" = "hallway" = "always" = "all ways"), as well as, in the burned sections, "Hollow[ ]" and "Hol[ ]y". House of Leaves. "Leaves" = "pages," thus the house is the book and/or vice versa. Also, "leaves" as a verb is alluded to, and a French letter in the appendix (uncredited) speaks of leaves as memories. Lude, presumably named after quaaludes. Also a homophone for "lewd." Surprisingly, the names of Hillary and Mallory, the Navidson family's husky and cat, respectively. Hillary can refer to Sir Edmund Hillary, an explorer who braved Mount Everest and survived. Mallory can refer to George Mallory, who also attempted to climb Everest. Much like the cat, he also disappeared unexpectedly. The Whalestoe institute Pelafina is in (and by extension the companion short novel The Whalestoe Letters). It is an anagram of "Whose tale"?, indicating the mysteriousness of Pelafina as a character, and the unclear nature of her relationship with ZampanÃ². The house itself is stated to be located on the corner of Ash Tree and Succoth. An ash tree is a type of giant tree which in old Norse belief was associated with the World Tree Yggdrasil, while Succoth is a Jewish holiday marking the end of the harvest season, observance of which involves dwelling in a type of temporary housing called a succah, the roof of which is notably mandated to be constructed of leaves. Makes you wonder what the street planners knew.
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House of Leaves / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
House of Leaves / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Holloway and Pelafina. A report notes that three people who became overly fixated on The Navidson Record ended up committing suicide. Which doesn't bode well for Johnny...
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House of Leaves / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
House of Leaves / int_6d57a234	comment	Johnny Truant, an embittered young druggie who apparently discovered ZampanÃ²'s notes after the old man went insane, presumably from his exposure (however limited) to the house on Ash Tree Lane. Of course, Johnny himself, as he freely admits, is quickly losing his marbles as he writes this story...
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House of Leaves / int_6f0737ea	type	Documentary of Lies
House of Leaves / int_6f0737ea	comment	Documentary of Lies: The In-Universe reviewers who theorize endlessly about The Navidson Record, or are consulted about its content, take it entirely for granted that it's this trope. Except for Stephen King, who wants to visit the house. The main thing that makes those reviewers believe it's fake is the labyrinth, because no way that could be real... Right?
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House of Leaves / int_6f0fd7b8	type	Everyone Loves Blondes
House of Leaves / int_6f0fd7b8	comment	Everyone Loves Blondes: In The Navidson Record, Karen Green is a blonde former fashion model who, even in her late thirties, continuously attracts the attention of many suitors, a factor which puts a strain on her relationship with Will. Even the transcripts of her later interviews with academics regarding the nature of the house are frequently interrupted by the subjects, both male and female, openly trying to hit on her.
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House of Leaves / int_70165a72	type	Orderlies are Creeps
House of Leaves / int_70165a72	comment	Orderlies are Creeps: Pelafina becomes convinced that the attendants in the mental hospital are raping her on a monthly basis as part of an organized effort to spiritually "break" her.
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House of Leaves / int_7032976	type	Sex Montage
House of Leaves / int_7032976	comment	Sex Montage: There's a brief part where Johnny reviews a list of Lude's sexcapades of the past month, many of which involve some rather eyebrow-raising activities (golden showers, wetsuits, threesomes, etc.). However, Johnny immediately deconstructs this trope by imagining a tragic backstory for each girl (abortions, rape, Parental Incest, prostitution, and so on). It's that kind of book.
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House of Leaves / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
House of Leaves / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: One where the instructions are in a different language, half the pieces have been burned or thrown into the garbage, and instead of actually seeing it you're being told about it by an increasingly unhinged man who is probably lying to you.
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House of Leaves / int_720ef89f	type	Unconventional Formatting
House of Leaves / int_720ef89f	comment	Unconventional Formatting: Probably the most well-known modern example. See Painting the Medium.
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House of Leaves / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
House of Leaves / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The reviews on the back of the book about this "funny, moving, sexy" romance. Or maybe we're all missing the point of this love story by making it out to be horrifying. According to the author:
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House of Leaves / int_743437c4	type	Chroma Key
House of Leaves / int_743437c4	comment	The color blue is meant to be used to something akin to Chroma Key. The Chroma Key reference means that the house is meant to be an entity that is projected on to. ZampanÃ², Johnny, and the readers all project as much into the house as Navidson or Holloway.
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House of Leaves / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
House of Leaves / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Delial". It's the name of the starving, near-death child in Navidson's career-making photograph.
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House of Leaves / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
House of Leaves / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Camille Paglia. She's calm and talks about how the house represents "the feminine void" when Karen talks to various celebrities, artists, journalists, critics, and professors about the house, and what it represents, but when Truant tries to verify their stories, out of the two responses he gets, Paglia's is on a postcard that says "Get lost, jerk". Of course, given that Paglia was never actually interviewed about the house, she could have responded negatively because her description in the book sounds like a caricature of herself.
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House of Leaves / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
House of Leaves / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Thumper, though she's just a stripper. She's still the most caring and dependable friend Johnny has.
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House of Leaves / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
House of Leaves / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: Navidson opines in his farewell letter to Karen that their house is God, and there's honestly very little reason to doubt him.
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House of Leaves / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
House of Leaves / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Johnny has sex with Kyrie in her expensive BMW while parked on a ledge overlooking the rest of LA.
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House of Leaves / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
House of Leaves / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: ZampanÃ² is heavily implied to have been a veteran of the French retreat from Vietnam that sparked The Vietnam War. His wartime diary entries are broken rambles. Navidson was a machine gunner in Vietnam, which is what inspired him to become a photographer. Raymond is a former Marine, and while it's not mentioned if he saw combat anywhere, the man's intense Hair-Trigger Temper and alcoholic tendencies are undoubtedly connected to his service.
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House of Leaves / int_7eaf99d	type	Malevolent Architecture
House of Leaves / int_7eaf99d	comment	Malevolent Architecture: The house again. Notice a pattern?
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House of Leaves / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
House of Leaves / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The transcript of What Some Have Thought is considerably lighter in tone than most other parts of the book. It's stated that the scene was included in theatrical releases of The Navidson Record, but later demoted to DVD extras because it was too much of a Breather Episode and took the audience right out of the horror atmosphere (and was considered too self-referential).
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House of Leaves / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
House of Leaves / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: Johnny's story is never resolved, opting to dissolve into his insane mother's letters to him. As for Navidson's story, averted - but ZampanÃ² really thinks there was something more to his happy ending. In one part of the book, Johnny specifically brings up his friend, Trenton, and then oddly remarks that he "is an old friend who doesn't live here and who I've not mentioned before." That leads into a footnote, which is composed entirely of blank lines. Trenton is never brought up again. Like every odd throwaway detail, this has led to a number of off-the-wall theories.
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House of Leaves / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
House of Leaves / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Karen Green, especially after the first exploration.
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House of Leaves / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
House of Leaves / int_8409a385	comment	The index of the book feels the need to list several words (exactly one hundred, as it happens) with a "DNE" (as in "Does Not Exist") label instead of a page number. Presumably because these words don't exist. At least a few of them do, however — "Yank" appears in one of the Whalestoe Institute Letters, and "galleries" can be found on page 119. Some words listed with DNE are also symbolic, e.g. defenestration, the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. Some of the DNE entries are flat-out hilarious, cheekily referring to concepts that most definitely don't appear in the book, or concepts that the book itself has refused to dive into.
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House of Leaves / int_84545521	type	Sapient House
House of Leaves / int_84545521	comment	Sapient House: The house on Ash Tree Lane. And boy, will you ever wish it wasn't.
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House of Leaves / int_847257ff	type	My Biological Clock Is Ticking
House of Leaves / int_847257ff	comment	My Biological Clock Is Ticking: A male, dramatic version. ZampanÃ² greatly regrets that he never had a son. In one of ZampanÃ²'s weird diary entries, he writes "a sun to read the dark". The "u" is crossed out and replaced with an "o", while the "a" in "read" is replaced with an "n", giving us "A son to rend the dark". It's almost certainly a reference to the Minotaur. He also writes a long paragraph about creating a son for himself through writing, which hints that Johnny might have just been made up by ZampanÃ² this whole time. They also could have both been inventions of Pelafina, if you want to take this line of thought even farther.
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House of Leaves / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
House of Leaves / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Jed Leeder is introduced with mention of his fiancee. Naturally, he dies first.
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House of Leaves / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
House of Leaves / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: A dog and a cat are part of the family when they move into the House. A chapter is dedicated to explaining that the House has no effect on animals, and they aren't disturbed by the House at all, in contrast to the humans. Then the dog and the cat are never mentioned again. Also In Universe Trope, as ZampanÃ² mentions in one of his notes that he wonders what happened to the pets. Johnny himself is mentioned in one footnote to have disappeared without a trace, and his ultimate fate is never mentioned. Depending on how one interprets his last words in the story, he may have never existed at all.
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House of Leaves / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
House of Leaves / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Most of the media and academic figures interviewed in the "What Some Have Thought" interlude take it at face value that The Navidson Record is fake and the house invokedmust be symbolic of something. The only exceptions are Karen's architect friend, who is mainly just mystified at the physics of it, Stephen King, who wants to visit it, and Hunter S. Thompson, who evidently had a very similar reaction to Johnny.
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House of Leaves / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
House of Leaves / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: The Navidson Record is said to have received effusive praise from critics for the exquisite psychological depth of its characters, most of which is conveyed solely through Navidson's masterful cinematography. The irony of course is that the film doesn't exist and we only know these things because ZampanÃ² spends so much time telling us about them.
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House of Leaves / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
House of Leaves / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Implied. Remember that point behind your head in the introduction to this page?
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House of Leaves / int_888b5b44	type	TheWorldTree
House of Leaves / int_888b5b44	comment	The World Tree: A poem refers to Yggdrasil, the world-linking tree of Norse mythology. Whether the implied connection to the house and to Ash Tree Lane is literal, figurative, or just the latest in a long list of mind screws is unclear.
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House of Leaves / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
House of Leaves / int_89b8822f	comment	ZampanÃ² passes away one night in his apartment, and as he has no friends or family the body isn't noticed for days and the only person who takes an interest in his life is one young Mr. Johnathan Truant. Unfortunately for him.
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House of Leaves / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
House of Leaves / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Johnny never gets to be with Thumper.
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House of Leaves / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
House of Leaves / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Pelafina, ZampanÃ², Donnie, Raymond and Delial. Worth noting that the first four are all parental figures for Johnny, and the lattermost is a sort of surrogate daughter for Navidson.
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House of Leaves / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
House of Leaves / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: As evidenced by Johnny's descent into madness.
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House of Leaves / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
House of Leaves / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Used with dizzying effects in Johnny's final footnotes. They camouflage the fact that he goes back and writes the introduction to the book, then hits rock bottom, says goodbye to Thumper and finds some form of salvation after finding a band who has read his now-published writings, saying, "It's going to be alright. It's going to be alright."
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House of Leaves / int_8d83bed9	type	The Vietnam Vet
House of Leaves / int_8d83bed9	comment	The Vietnam Vet: Will Navidson and ZampanÃ², though the latter fought for the French in the First Indochina War, rather than the more famous American intervention.
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House of Leaves / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
House of Leaves / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Anne Rice, Stephen King, Harold Bloom, Steve Wozniak, Walter Mosley, Stanley Kubrick and Camille Paglia among others...
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House of Leaves / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
House of Leaves / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Johnny. This even becomes a plot point when Johnny makes up several journal entries and then mocks the reader for believing them, saying that we should have at least been tipped off by the lacking of foul language in the fake entries.
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House of Leaves / int_90c54800	type	Scrapbook Story
House of Leaves / int_90c54800	comment	Scrapbook Story: The book is largely built around a thesis, which itself produces personal entries, other academic works, transcripts, letters, and so on.
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House of Leaves / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
House of Leaves / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: References, highlighted in various colors and Fonts, such as to the Greek labyrinth and the Minotaur, to make SURE we don't miss them. Not to mention several more layered references to various mythologies. Oh, and the poem of Yggdrasil at the very end.
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House of Leaves / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
House of Leaves / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: Johnny implies briefly that nine is this to him near the end, though he doesn't seem to mention it elsewhere. He might be on to something, though - he calculates the digital root for the date to find 9, and if you do the same to his birthday, you also find 9.
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House of Leaves / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
House of Leaves / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: What is the house? How did it get there? What, if anything, is the Minotaur? Why did Navidson choose to go back? Does The Navidson Record really exist, and if so why is there so little evidence of it? How would ZampanÃ² have written such a detailed exegesis of it if he's blind? Where did those claw marks in his apartment come from?
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House of Leaves / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
House of Leaves / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Oh so very many, to the point where it can be said that 90% of the story happens on rereads. For instance, many of Johnny's stream of consciousness rants will make no sense until you read the Whalestoe letters.
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House of Leaves / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
House of Leaves / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The Labyrinth: the deeper you go down the older it gets. The oldest sample Navidson tests turns out to be much older than the solar system itself.
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House of Leaves / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
House of Leaves / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Holloway commits suicide with his gun in order to not get killed by the Minotaur, after he accidentally murdered Jed, ran off and got lost in the maze, and just before the Minotaur is about to close in on him.
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House of Leaves / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
House of Leaves / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: Serial womanizer Johnny Truant falls hopelessly in love with Thumper.
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House of Leaves / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
House of Leaves / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Will's experiences photographing war zones have given him an appreciation for all human life, something which Karen realizes while editing a short biography of him which prompts her to rekindle their relationship.
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House of Leaves / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
House of Leaves / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The house, of course. It's Bigger on the Inside, and appears to be a Genius Loci that likes intentionally screwing with people.
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House of Leaves / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
House of Leaves / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The house, if you read into the subtext. In context, it's outright stated someone tried to burn the Navidson house down after it was sealed off — it failed.
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House of Leaves / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
House of Leaves / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early in the book, Johnny and Lude go to a wild house party where the first thing they see is a motorcycle crashed into a pool and two dudes shoving coke up a passed out woman's nose, causing Johnny to remark that Lude probably doesn't think too much about death. Lude ultimately dies in a motorcycle crash because he did too much coke at a party and decided to go for a joyride.
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House of Leaves / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
House of Leaves / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: The Minotaur does this with horrifying execution and effectiveness. This seems to have happened, albeit to an incomplete degree, to the entire Navidson Record, and according to one interpretation of the Gainax Ending, Johnny himself.
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House of Leaves / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
House of Leaves / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: It has been suggested that the novel might be so complex and strange because Danielewski is just messing with us.
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House of Leaves / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
House of Leaves / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: When Navidson, Tom, and Reston go into the house to find Holloway, Tom puts the radio to good use.
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House of Leaves / int_a4adc15c	type	Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum
House of Leaves / int_a4adc15c	comment	Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum: Double Subverted. The stuff from the walls inside the labyrinth in the house actually can be chemically analyzed and consists of normal elements. But the results make no sense in context and only make things more baffling — the age of the stuff varies all the way back to older than the solar system.
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House of Leaves / int_a588cd12	type	Cool House
House of Leaves / int_a588cd12	comment	Cool House: Navidson certainly thinks so. The kids seem to agree. It certainly is big...like, impossibly, endlessly incomprehensibly big...
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House of Leaves / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
House of Leaves / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Sort of: at one point Navidson expresses the view that the house is God. Whether it fits this trope depends on whether you think the house is sentient or not, or whether you think it matters.
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House of Leaves / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
House of Leaves / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Despite being an Unseen Evil who likely doesn't even exist, the Minotaur receives a symbolic association with this trope from ZampanÃ², who goes on a lengthy digression about the mythical Minotaur's origins as the deformed and estranged son of the Queen of Crete. This becomes important in Johnny's story when he starts taking on aspects of the Minotaur.
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House of Leaves / int_a6bd04e0	type	Rule of Scary
House of Leaves / int_a6bd04e0	comment	Rule of Scary: Much of the book runs on pure, incomprehensible nightmare logic - of the primal fear of being trapped in an ever-expanding house that can't be understood, mapped, or escaped. What, if anything, is the Minotaur? What happened to ZampanÃ². and what killed the cats around his apartment? Why did he go crazy? Why is Johnny going crazy? Why are YOU going crazy? How the hell did Johnny and Will Navidson find a copy of the book in which they are both fictional characters reading about each other's existence at the same time?
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House of Leaves / int_a7055a94	type	Classical Anti-Hero
House of Leaves / int_a7055a94	comment	Classical Anti-Hero: Johnny is a paranoid, mentally ill slacker who deliberately wastes his life trying to get as fucked up as he can and is at times quite difficult to sympathize with.
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House of Leaves / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
House of Leaves / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Will Navidson is called "Navy" (apparently a short for his last name) instead of his first name by everybody, including his wife and his brother (this seems kind of awkward seeing this brother of course shares the same last name). "Thumper" is what Johnny calls the woman he has the most consistent crush on throughout the book - after a tattoo she has. Though Johnny hears her real name near the end of the book, he never reveals it to the reader.
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House of Leaves / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
House of Leaves / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Johnny may seem like a vulgar druggie, yet he is actually quite an intelligent man. It is heavily implied in the book that he wrote the Pelican Poems during his travels in Europe.note One of the Whalestoe Letters mentions Johnny travelling to Europe during a specific time period with only a Pelikan pen, money and a bag of clothes. One of Johnny's early diary entry mentions various cities in Europe he visited. The Pelican Poems are all labelled with the dates and locations described.
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House of Leaves / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
House of Leaves / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Reston faces the impossible labyrinth with fearlessness and determination, not even being dissuaded by the prospect of having to drag himself down the spiral staircase with just his arms. He even squeezes off some return fire when Holloway comes hunting after them.
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House of Leaves / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
House of Leaves / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: The burnt pages analyzing Holloway's past mention that he had frequently been in therapy for suicidal ideations, and used his mountaineering and hunting activities as a way to cope. The house takes this from him, as his inability to conquer or even understand it wrecks whatever passed for his self-worth, quickly driving him to homicidal rage when Jed and Wax refuse to follow him deeper into the labyrinth.
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House of Leaves / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
House of Leaves / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: One of Navidson's dreams puzzled over by student papers is an afterlife of a giant, featureless room and a well of water, populated by scared men and women. Navidson sees someone gather enough courage and jump into the water - where he's deemed good enough to be taken away to the real afterlife. But if you're a sinner, all you do is sink, down and down, into where light cannot go. Forever.
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House of Leaves / int_a8b54aa7	type	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
House of Leaves / int_a8b54aa7	comment	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Johnny Truant. It comes to a point he's interrupting the narrative just to describe whatever girl he last nailed, and starts obsessing over Lude's own sexual escapades.
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House of Leaves / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
House of Leaves / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Johnnie's eyes are so bloodshot they look bright red. Interestingly, Johnny imagines ZampanÃ² looking the same way at several points.
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House of Leaves / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
House of Leaves / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Tormented artist Johnny and Book Dumb hedonist Lude. They are united by a common love of sex and drugs.
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House of Leaves / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
House of Leaves / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs: Absolutely fucking riddled with them. The book can best be described as a labyrinth constructed by a semiotician. A nonexhaustive list of the most obvious ones: Hallways, staircases, spirals, empty rooms, windows, echoes, and, of course, darkness. The essential components of the house, which haunt every level of the narrative from The Navidson Record upwards. Claws, horns, and growls, associated with the Minotaur. Navidson and his family, in contrast to the house, are associated with light, a natural extension of his career in photography. Johnny is strongly associated with nautical and oceanic imagery, with the scars on his arms being compared to ocean waves and many of his digressions concerning boats in some way. Johnny himself is a transient who spent a considerable part of his childhood on an Alaskan fishing boat, and as a young adult he sailed to Europe where he lived as a nomad for a time. Later, he starts taking on aspects of the Minotaur as his state of mind degenerates, culminating in his brutal assault on Gdansk Man and Kyrie (who can be read as stand-ins for Theseus and Ariadne, if one goes by the dream sequence he has late in the novel). The color blue is associated with the house, but also shows up in other contexts which seem conceptually opposed to it (e.g, Karen's blue halogen light guiding Navidson back to the real world at the end, ZampanÃ²'s mention of "this great blue world" in the poem that gives the book its title). Red is associated with the Minotaur, as well as with things that the author(s) wished to delete from the narrative but left in (similar to the mythical Minotaur's status as an unwanted child). Purple shows up only once in the narrative proper, and seems to be associated with Pelafina. Trees are symbolically connected to the house as well, but also show up in less sinister contexts like ZampanÃ²'s love poem "You Shall Be My Roots" and the Yggdrasil poem in the back of the book. There's also an odd association with holidays, such as the essay being completed on Christmas or the film itself ending on Halloween. Contents escaping their containers, which mirrors the unnatural dimensions of the house. Examples range from an overfull coffee cup to the increasingly sprawling and intrusive footnotes. Cats are associated with Johnny, Pelafina, and ZampanÃ², helping to symbolically connect them as a family. In the latter's case Johnny compares them to his memories, and ZampanÃ²'s poetry frequently refers to panthers. Ghosts, in the sense of actual honest to god spirits returned from the grave, never show up in the story, but the concept of ghosts and hauntings is frequently mentioned as part of the larger meta-analysis of the horror genre, as well as the general theme of thresholds and liminality. Johnny compares both his mother and a past love of his to ghosts, Posthumous Character ZampanÃ² can be likened to a ghost who Johnny works to exorcise by finishing the manuscript, and Navidson is driven to return to the house by the "ghosts" of Tom and Delial, whose deaths he feels he must atone for.
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House of Leaves / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
House of Leaves / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Of the three explorers who venture into the house's depths, only Kirby Hook makes it out alive.
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House of Leaves / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
House of Leaves / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Animals cannot enter the supernatural parts of the house. At one point, Navidson's dog and cat run through the first floor hallway and are immediately in the back yard, where the door should lead to. Zampano and Johnny both point out how strange it is that it appears Navidson never attempted to explore this aspect.
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House of Leaves / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
House of Leaves / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Holloway's death is treated very somberly, as despite being a murderer it's made clear that the house preyed on his feelings of inadequacy to drive him insane. In his final moments he regains lucidity and is overcome by remorse for his actions, and his last words are a desperate assertion of his own identity against the advancing darkness before he commits suicide.
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House of Leaves / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
House of Leaves / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The whole of The Navidson Record, or perhaps the entirety of the book, could qualify.
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House of Leaves / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
House of Leaves / int_ae3d6438	comment	Even Johnny's editor gets on it, by leaving deadpan, dry rebuttals to some of Johnny's more screwball theories.
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House of Leaves / int_aea21604	type	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped
House of Leaves / int_aea21604	comment	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: The captions for Holloway's heavily garbled Apocalyptic Log apparently contain question marks where his speech becomes too incoherent to transcribe.
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House of Leaves / int_aec3e0b8	type	Glory Hound
House of Leaves / int_aec3e0b8	comment	Glory Hound: Holloway's motivation for exploring the labyrinth is mostly so he can get a place in the history books.
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House of Leaves / int_af682bc7	type	Heavenly Blue
House of Leaves / int_af682bc7	comment	The color blue is associated with the house, but also shows up in other contexts which seem conceptually opposed to it (e.g, Karen's blue halogen light guiding Navidson back to the real world at the end, ZampanÃ²'s mention of "this great blue world" in the poem that gives the book its title). Red is associated with the Minotaur, as well as with things that the author(s) wished to delete from the narrative but left in (similar to the mythical Minotaur's status as an unwanted child). Purple shows up only once in the narrative proper, and seems to be associated with Pelafina.
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House of Leaves / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
House of Leaves / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: One could interpret the house's behavior as a sort of twisted wish fulfillment. Holloway wanted an ultimate adventure and to be remembered - he got it, and lost his life and sanity in the process, while also becoming infamous as a murderer. At least in the world of the book. Tom wanted to be as respected as his Pulitzer prize winning brother. After the house killed him, Will lamented about his failure to save Delial and saw Tom as a hero. The Navidsons wanted to come together as a family, the house terrorized them until they ultimately did. The children were traumatized in the process and Will lost a limb and parts of his face to frostbite, but you can't deny that they were together in the end.
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House of Leaves / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
House of Leaves / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Pelafina, though not entirely of her own volition. Aside from trying to strangle Johnny in a fit of delusional hysteria, her later letters to him also grow distressingly manipulative and confrontational.
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House of Leaves / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
House of Leaves / int_b2af79fb	comment	On some pages, the lines are typed at angles or go around the edges of geometric shapes, with the rest of the page being white space. Other pages fill a borderless geometric shape with text. Many of these pages echo the action of what is happening in the book at that moment. Other pages are blank except for footnotes, akin to a held cinematic shot.
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House of Leaves / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
House of Leaves / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Eventually Navidson realizes that, somehow, no matter how he measures, the inside of the house is one-quarter inch larger than the outside. Then it turns into 5/16 of an inch. Then that 5/16 corrects itself. Then everything goes to hell.
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House of Leaves / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
House of Leaves / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Holloway is as much a victim of the house as anyone else.
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House of Leaves / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
House of Leaves / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Played tragically with Lude, who descends even further into drug addiction after being hospitalized by Gdansk Man and eventually dies when he decides to ride a motorcycle at top speed through a busy intersection while high off his mind on speedballs.
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House of Leaves / int_b6a37e0b	type	Deaf Composer
House of Leaves / int_b6a37e0b	comment	Deaf Composer: ZampanÃ², a blind movie reviewer.
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House of Leaves / int_b6aad019	type	Snuff Film
House of Leaves / int_b6aad019	comment	Snuff Film: One of the footnotes describes a film that drew just as much attention as The Navidson Record called La Belle NiÃ§oise et Le Beau Chien, noted for its depiction of the murder of a little girl with "comic reality." The film garnered rave reviews and was universally considered a classic of arthouse cinema... until it was discovered that the filmmaker actually killed a young Lithuanian girl to create it. Incidentally, in real life, the discovery of the true nature of La Belle NiÃ§oise et Le Beau Chien led it to be (quite understandably) stripped of its accolades, which were then given to Underground instead. The awards that Underground won are real. La Belle NiÃ§oise et Le Beau Chien does not exist. The Navidson Record itself depicts three real, violent deaths onscreen.
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House of Leaves / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
House of Leaves / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Reston is black and disabled.
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House of Leaves / int_b6f33a21	type	Rainbow Speak
House of Leaves / int_b6f33a21	comment	Rainbow Speak: In the book, the majority of the text is printed in the usual black but the word "house" is always printed in blue, and parts of the text are printed in red (parts that the In Universe editors struck through, and anything referring to the Minotaur).
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House of Leaves / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
House of Leaves / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: ZampanÃ² alleges that the Weinstein brothers left a particular sequence out of the theatrical cut of The Navidson Record because it was too self-referential. This, in a book where half the book is just one character commenting on the other half. And then there's Johnny's lengthy rant after discovering the "ftaires" document (see That Was the Last Entry below), complaining about how old timey people use "f" instead of "s" (actually "Å¿", an archaic form of "s"), and over the course of which he gradually beginf to replace more and more of his "s"s with "f"s until the final fentence contains no correctly typed "s"f at all. Made somewhat unfettling by the fact that he appearf to be doing thif involuntarily and without realizing it.
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House of Leaves / int_b77a6d82	type	Evil Is Deathly Cold
House of Leaves / int_b77a6d82	comment	Evil Is Deathly Cold: It's always precisely 32.7 degrees Fahrenheit inside the labyrinth. After his last exploration, Navidson spends a week in a coma and loses parts of his face because of hypothermia.
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House of Leaves / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
House of Leaves / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Blue and black for the house, red for the Minotaur, purple for Pelafina.
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House of Leaves / int_b970a40	type	Valley Girl
House of Leaves / int_b970a40	comment	Almost literally. Johnny finds a stray Pekingese dog, and one of his off-again on-again female "friends", a spoiled Valley Girl Rich Bitch, coos over it and promises she'll take care of it and takes it home. No sooner than her overpriced car zooms past Johnny, she hurls the dog out the window past him, crushing half its skull.
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House of Leaves / int_b9743771	type	Beast in the Maze
House of Leaves / int_b9743771	comment	Beast in the Maze: The mysterious beast that stalks the explorers of the house, which quickly reveals itself to be an Eldritch Location that twists and changes around them and is compared to a labyrinth. What the beast could be, is left ambiguous. The various theories in and out of universe call it a (or maybe the) Minotaur, a personification of the house, or an Animalistic Abomination. The text also floats the idea that there is no beast. The roars heard inside aren't coming from a throat; rather, they're the creaking and groaning of the material that makes up the house as it remakes itself into a new shape. So perhaps it's less that there is no beast in the maze and more that the maze is the beast.
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House of Leaves / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
House of Leaves / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Averted — Danielewski has received numerous option offers (often proposing quite generous sums), but has refused all of them, mostly on the grounds that the various studios' proposals for how to adapt the book tend to miss the point (such as by adapting only Navidson's story, and omitting Johnny, ZampanÃ² etc., altogether).
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House of Leaves / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
House of Leaves / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: This one could take awhile. There are at least four levels of narrative here: The deepest level of the story is The Navidson Record, the documentary film that Will Navidson makes about the titular Haunted House. Of course, since this is a novel, we're not actually seeing The Navidson Record itself, we're experiencing it as filtered through... The extensive narrative analysis of the film conducted by ZampanÃ². This extensive narrative analysis is itself constantly edited, commented on, analyzed, and called into question by... Johnny Truant, an embittered young druggie who apparently discovered ZampanÃ²'s notes after the old man went insane, presumably from his exposure (however limited) to the house on Ash Tree Lane. Of course, Johnny himself, as he freely admits, is quickly losing his marbles as he writes this story... ...to which is appended the letters of his schizophrenic, abusive mother, who might be the least reliable narrator of all. On top of which is added a loose collection of quotes, sketches, photos, diary entries, poems, and film stills which will confuse you further. Which is then compiled and analyzed by a group of unnamed editors. But of course, considering what happened to all those above them, you have to wonder what happened to those editors after finishing the book... ...which you are now reading. And considering how many readers can attest to the feeling of inexplicably strong paranoia which the book inflicts on you, not unlike that which Johnny, ZampanÃ² and Navidson experience... Taken to terrifyingly ridiculous extremes when Will Navidson discovers discovers a copy of House of Leaves, which includes the notes of Johnny Truant on the story of Will Navidson. And then Johnny Truant finds a copy of House of Leaves, containing Will Navidson's discovery of the notes of Johnny Truant on the story of Will Navidson...
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House of Leaves / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
House of Leaves / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Johnny not only admits to punching up some details to ZampanÃ²'s manuscript, but keeps intruding on the research to tell stories of his escapades.
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House of Leaves / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
House of Leaves / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: ZampanÃ² writes in a single "fuck" when describing Reston's situation. Truant notices and promptly goes into an exegesis on the word.
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House of Leaves / int_bd635007	type	Fauxreigner
House of Leaves / int_bd635007	comment	Fauxreigner: Is ZampanÃ² French, Portuguese, or Spanish? He recites the names of French positions at Dien Bien Phu lost to the Viet Minh, suggesting that he was in the French Foreign Legion and therefore a Frenchman of foreign birth.
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House of Leaves / int_be445584	type	Act of True Love
House of Leaves / int_be445584	comment	Act of True Love: Karen facing down her deepest fears and traumas to enter the labyrinth one final time and save her husband at the end certainly counts, and is noted as such by ZampanÃ². One of his cited sources speculates that she physically could not have made this decision if she hadn't made "A Brief History of Who I Love" earlier, as it allowed her to gain a new perspective on her husband that made her realize how much she really does love and need him.
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House of Leaves / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
House of Leaves / int_bec0417c	comment	Karen Green, considered one of the most beautiful people on earth, whose own narcissism more than matches Navidson's, causing mutual isolation and strife in their relationship which catches almost everyone around them in the crossfire, most notably their children. The traumatic events she endures break down her emotional barriers and cause her to finally admit to herself how much she needs Navidson. At the end of the film, they've finally stopped dancing around the issue and are Happily Married.
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House of Leaves / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
House of Leaves / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The book will screw with you on every conceivable level.
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House of Leaves / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
House of Leaves / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: In addition to drugs, Johnny and Lude's lives seem to revolve around sex. Karen's sister in an interview says Karen, before she got into a relationship with Navidson, slept around, and calls her a slut. It may or may not be true, as the sister is not on good terms with Karen and might be making it up to badmouth her. A trait of Kirby Hook, one of the three who delve into the depths of the House. After he escapes the house and recovered from his bullet wound, he suffers from impotency, which vanishes once Navidson returns to the house.
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House of Leaves / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
House of Leaves / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted for Johnny, who narrates being attacked by something while working in the tattoo shop and during this attack, pooping and peeing in his pants in fear; then turns out the Brown Note part of the story didn't happen after all and he just imagined that (whether the Monster (attack) is real or not, is left ambiguous). Around this time it should be getting obvious Johnny is an Unreliable Narrator...
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House of Leaves / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
House of Leaves / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook: One of the countless reviewers of The Navidson Record thought that he could locate the house via a screencap of Navidson's matchbook. Nope. It merely led him to a bar in England which Navidson has visited years ago.
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House of Leaves / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
House of Leaves / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: When Johnny comes across his two doctor friends who take him in and nurse him back to health. Except that was just a lie. Or was it? Also when Navidson miraculously escapes the labyrinth on his own and the family makes preparations to leave once and for all. And then the house takes a turn for the possessive.invoked A little before that is the bit where Navidson and Reston unexpectedly find Jed and Wax. Jed had been convinced he was about to die and was overjoyed to see friendly faces coming to rescue him. A second later, Holloway's bullet rips through his skull.
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House of Leaves / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
House of Leaves / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Pelafina, who writes in French, Latin, Old English, and Greek at different points. She passed at least some of this on to Johnny, who is shown to remember several phrases in Latin despite suppressing his knowledge of the language as part of his effort to escape his past. There's also ZampanÃ², who, though he needs translators for several parts including the Greek and Latin sections, is extremely fluent in French, English, and Spanish, and has a reasonable grasp of German. Because nothing in this book is a coincidence, it's another hint at the strange relationship he has with Johnny and Pelafina.
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House of Leaves / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
House of Leaves / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: Published in 2000, but most of the action takes place from 1990 to 1998.
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House of Leaves / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
House of Leaves / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Johnny's sexual conquests are described in rather graphic detail, but most are too sad, too creepy, too abstract, or too all three at once to get much eroticism out of.
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House of Leaves / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
House of Leaves / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Johnny's mother describes the Three Attic Whalestoe Institute as one of these in her letters.
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House of Leaves / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
House of Leaves / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: For example, The Navidson Record talks about Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote like he was real. The first chapter quotes a line ("I saw a film today, oh boy...") from "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles. ZampanÃ² is named after a character in the Federico Fellini film La Strada. At one point, Chad is mentioned playing Myst. Bear in mind that the scene in question would have to take place sometime between June and September of 1990, and the first game was not released until 1993. Also bear in mind that the plot of Myst involves traveling to alternate dimensions via books, and an infamous part of the first game involves navigating a labyrinth using only echoes, both of which are similar to elements of this novel. Page 237 is just a reference to The Shining
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House of Leaves / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
House of Leaves / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: To an extent that pervades the entire work. It's possible that ZampanÃ² completely made up The Navidson Record, but that doesn't account for the scratches on his apartment floor, or the disappearance of the cats, or the "Contrary Evidence" appendix whose most shocking detail is a still from The Navidson Record. And that's just getting started. At one point Johnny hallucinates himself being attacked and strangled by... something in the attic of the tattoo parlor. But if it was just a hallucination, why are there huge red handprints on his neck? In one of her letters, Pelafina casts a curse on Johnny's stepfather Raymond after she learns of him sending Johnny to the hospital. Shortly afterwards, Johnny runs away and Raymond dies of cancer, but it's not made clear if the curse actually worked or if it was just coincidence.
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House of Leaves / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
House of Leaves / int_cd8ca67a	comment	One chapter is dedicated to scientific analysis of various materials recovered from the house. Sounds like it would answer a lot of questions, right? Well, Johnny says he accidentally destroyed most of the manuscript for that chapter. That's not the Unreveal, though — right after the missing analysis it's stated there was nothing unusual about the materials. (So basically we've just been spared a lot of pointless chemical semi-Techno Babble when we don't get the full analysis.) Except for the part that the different samples were from different ages, up to the point that part of the labyrinth is older than the solar system and is the same material as asteroids. Basically the house is just saying "screw you(r mind)" at any attempts at making sense of it.
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House of Leaves / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
House of Leaves / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Applies if you consider the house to be a character.
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House of Leaves / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
House of Leaves / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: House of Leaves is pretty much Exhibit A for this trope. The Minotaur that is constantly alluded to never appears, the pet cat Mallory simply vanishes without comment, and we never come close to truly comprehending the nature of the House.
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House of Leaves / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
House of Leaves / int_ce104b8e	comment	Taken to terrifyingly ridiculous extremes when Will Navidson discovers discovers a copy of House of Leaves, which includes the notes of Johnny Truant on the story of Will Navidson. And then Johnny Truant finds a copy of House of Leaves, containing Will Navidson's discovery of the notes of Johnny Truant on the story of Will Navidson...
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House of Leaves / int_ce6487aa	type	Misery Builds Character
House of Leaves / int_ce6487aa	comment	Misery Builds Character: The Navidsons go through absolute hell in the titular House, but they become closer as a family because of it.
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House of Leaves / int_d05cf3f	type	Footnote Fever
House of Leaves / int_d05cf3f	comment	Footnote Fever: You've got footnotes from Johnny Truant, ZampanÃ² and other editors, plus footnotes within footnotes within footnotes, in one part even making an entire "window" in the book. Soon after that window, the footnotes start going off in weird angles and, should you actually bother to follow, forming actual labyrinths. Some footnotes are re-referenced hundreds of pages later, and some of the more important ones get their own symbols.
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House of Leaves / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
House of Leaves / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Normal text is printed in black, and the word "house" always appears in blue, including in the title, copyright information, etc. note One "house" (remastered full color edition) escaped blueing, though. Happy searching.
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House of Leaves / int_d77d360a	comment	Fictional Media: To a ridiculous extent that could pass as a parody or Deconstruction. The entire book is a Fictional Document analyzing another unpublished Fictional Document commentating on a fictional film. Note that all of ZampanÃ²'s work is fictional in-universe, as well, to the great confusion of the editors and Johnny Truant.
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House of Leaves / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
House of Leaves / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": No one knows the Gdansk Man's real name. He's just called the Gdansk Man.
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House of Leaves / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
House of Leaves / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In Navidson's attempts to document the house, he discovers at one point that animals can't enter the parts of it that shouldn't be there. His cat and dog chase each other through the first floor hallway door and immediately emerge in the backyard, which is where the doorway would lead if it weren't an Eldritch Location. He doesn't comment on this or follow up on it, despite it being clear that he saw what happened. Both Zampano and Johnny lampshade how strange that is.
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House of Leaves / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
House of Leaves / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Johnny goes looking for his childhood home from before his mother was committed. The whole neighborhood has been demolished and a lumber mill now stands in its place. Johnny struggles to accept this and questions whether the house ever stood there at all, or if it had been another paranoia-induced manufactured memory.
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House of Leaves / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
House of Leaves / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: ZampanÃ² certainly can't. His acceleration calculation that claims the stairway is deeper that the circumference of the Earth makes the minor error of forgetting terminal velocity. Navidson would probably have noticed something off about a quarter traveling at 65,500 miles per hour, given it would have hit the ground with the energy of a stick of dynamite. Accounting for terminal velocity would make the depth of the hole even greater than the circumference of the Earth.
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House of Leaves / int_db126a0b	comment	The house itself is stated to be located on the corner of Ash Tree and Succoth. An ash tree is a type of giant tree which in old Norse belief was associated with the World Tree Yggdrasil, while Succoth is a Jewish holiday marking the end of the harvest season, observance of which involves dwelling in a type of temporary housing called a succah, the roof of which is notably mandated to be constructed of leaves. Makes you wonder what the street planners knew.
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House of Leaves / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
House of Leaves / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Johnny abuses numerous substances to self-medicate his deteriorating psyche, and he makes it pretty clear as the book goes on that any relief he gets from being high is fleeting and leaves him deeper in the hole than he was before. Lude's own drug use causes him to engage in incredibly risky behavior, culminating in him killing himself in a motorcycle accident.
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House of Leaves / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
House of Leaves / int_e0c470a1	comment	...which you are now reading. And considering how many readers can attest to the feeling of inexplicably strong paranoia which the book inflicts on you, not unlike that which Johnny, ZampanÃ² and Navidson experience...
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House of Leaves / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Zigzagged with Pelafina, who in her more lucid moments is fiercely protective of Johnny, but was sent to the Whalestoe Institute in the first place because she tried to strangle him to death in her madness.
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House of Leaves / int_e33e4e8	comment	That Was the Last Entry: The last entry in the notebook which is all that remains of an Eighteenth Century winter expedition which journeyed in the same area where the house would eventually stand: "Ftaires! We haue found ftaires!" ("Ftaires" should be read as "stairs", because the old-fashioned elongated "s" ('Å¿') that looks like a modern "f" was mistranscribed by one of the interlocutors.)
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House of Leaves / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
House of Leaves / int_e41cf31d	comment	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge: Gdansk Man wreaks this on Lude, and Johnny in turn does to this Gdansk Man.
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House of Leaves / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: ZampanÃ²'s little documentary... starts to spin out of control, suffice to say.
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House of Leaves / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
House of Leaves / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: The Minotaur is never shown to either the characters or the audience, with the only indication that it even exists being the horrific growl heard inside the labyrinth and the apparent destruction of any object that gets left behind. As a matter of fact, ZampanÃ² seems to have made a concerted effort to erase any evidence of its existence at all. Seeing as its defining aspects, as described by Johnny, are darkness, silence, and the obliteration of meaning, it wouldn't make sense for it to ever appear; it's quite literally the metaphysical incarnation of nothing.
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House of Leaves / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
House of Leaves / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Played more or less straight with Pelafina and Holloway.
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House of Leaves / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
House of Leaves / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Raymond, Johnny's foster father, who in contrast to the other human antagonists is a fairly uncomplicated abuser. There's also Gdansk Man, who as far as we see is just a violent, vindictive asshole.
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House of Leaves / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
House of Leaves / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: The index of the book feels the need to list several words (exactly one hundred, as it happens) with a "DNE" (as in "Does Not Exist") label instead of a page number. Presumably because these words don't exist. At least a few of them do, however — "Yank" appears in one of the Whalestoe Institute Letters, and "galleries" can be found on page 119. Some words listed with DNE are also symbolic, e.g. defenestration, the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. Some of the DNE entries are flat-out hilarious, cheekily referring to concepts that most definitely don't appear in the book, or concepts that the book itself has refused to dive into. In several pages of the book, there are multiple sidebars that describe what architectural features are NOT found in the labyrinthine sections of the house, resulting in the author taking multiple pages to say "The labyrinth in the house has featureless black walls, floors, and ceilings, and does not resemble any particular architectural style. Picture that. In your dreams."
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House of Leaves / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: To an extent. While the characters recognize something is clearly very wrong with the house, ZampanÃ² prefers to discuss what is going on in the characters' heads in long narrative sections, which Johnny notes several times are actually not very academic or factual.
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House of Leaves / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
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House of Leaves / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
House of Leaves / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Thematically significant typos are practically a Creator Thumbprint for ZampanÃ². Examples include replacing "density" with "destiny" in a digression about physics and writing in first person when he should be writing in third person.
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House of Leaves / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
House of Leaves / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: If The Navidson Record includes everything ZampanÃ² says it does, the film would have to be, at minimum, five hours long.
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House of Leaves / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted with William Navidson and Billy Reston. Fortunately, the former is almost always referred to as "Navy".
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House of Leaves / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
House of Leaves / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Jed, who gets shot in the head by Holloway right when he thinks he's saved. "A lifetime finished between the space of two frames", to quote ZampanÃ².
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House of Leaves / int_f2be6700	type	Stepford Snarker
House of Leaves / int_f2be6700	comment	Stepford Snarker: Johnny can have a pretty wry sense of humor, but it's mostly a defense mechanism against the gnawing emotional pain left by his abusive and transient upbringing.
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House of Leaves / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
House of Leaves / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: "Daddy, I wanna play hallways!" And other instances; for example, at school all the kids are told to draw their houses. The Navidson children turn in pieces of paper that they colored several coats of black, with monsters in the margins. They have more at home. They're completely black.
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House of Leaves / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
House of Leaves / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Neither Tom's nor Holloway's bodies are ever recovered. While Holloway is pretty clearly dead, Tom's ultimate fate is never given, after he falls through a sinkhole in the kitchen.
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House of Leaves / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
House of Leaves / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Despite all that the Navidsons go through, they ultimately live to tell the tale, and are closer as a family because of it. Despite ZampanÃ² dying, he still finishes his paper, and even though Johnny was on the brink of death, he appears to have recovered if his final words are true. Sadly, it's highly likely that they aren't.
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House of Leaves / int_f65c014c	comment	Conveniently Interrupted Document: Very frequently, with Johnny spilling ink on the pages of the manuscript or things like that. Interestingly, information which isn't important to the plot also sometimes gets damaged as well.
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House of Leaves / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: The house on Ash Tree Lane is one of the most horrifying in literature, not just because the labyrinth within it constantly changes form, not just because it's heavily implied to have a mind of its own, but because we never figure exactly what it is that is haunting the house. Maybe it's the Minotaur. Maybe it's the Navidson family. Maybe it's you.
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House of Leaves / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Half the interviewees in the "What Some Have Thought" interlude are trying to get into Karen's pants with varying degrees of subtlety, including the women.
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House of Leaves / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
House of Leaves / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Discussed in-universe when Karen interviews an architect who goes off on a long ramble about how impossible the labyrinth is, just as an architectural structure. For example, if it's so massive, how does it support its own weight, especially since its parts are constantly moving? And is it large enough to have its own gravitational pull, like a planet?
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House of Leaves / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: Played straight by the house, which starts off the inner-most plot. Also subverted. Tom's base is a tent with meager supplies, and actual base consists of the Navidson estate. The hardcover book itself is bigger on the inside. The cover is smaller than the pages.
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House of Leaves / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
House of Leaves / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Johnny's father died in a truck crash when he was a child, his schizophrenic mother spilled cooking oil on him and permanently scarred his arms, she later attempted to strangle him and was sent to an insane asylum, his foster family abused him leading him to become a delinquent who constantly got in fights, and he was eventually sent to a boarding school in Alaska where he almost drowned on a fishing boat. Will and Tom Navidson grew up in an abusive household and ended up coping in different ways, with Tom becoming a transient alcoholic and Will becoming a serial thrill seeker. Will suffered further emotional blows photographing various atrocities and disasters around the world, culminating in his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of "Delial", a starving child whom he feels he allowed to die, which he is still trying to atone for years later. Karen was molested by her stepfather and continues to have crippling claustrophobia as a result. ZampanÃ²'s past is the most mysterious by far, but it's apparent that he was traumatized fighting in Vietnam and has had his heart broken many times.
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