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trainer101 · Post by **trainer101** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:24 am

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The papers all say that "JOHNNY IS TRUANT!"
And his mother's reportedly ruined.
He's gone to the wind,
God knows how he's sinned,
'Cause in Latin he's practically fluent

janesalteredstates · Post by **janesalteredstates** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:33 am

I don't know if this matters, but:

Johnny Truant is a band.

I'm too tired and what about the stuff from "Awry"?

gogo · Post by **gogo** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:35 am

This quote comes from the intriguing novel that explores a fictional documentary The House of Leaves (the novel) and The Navidson Record (the fictional documentary).

This is a pretty good review of Danielewski's novel. I'm not sure if it helps at all, but it might shed some insight into the minds of the producers.

trainer101 · Post by **trainer101** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:36 am

janesalteredstates wrote:I don't know if this matters, but:

Johnny Truant is a band.

I'm too tired and what about the stuff from "Awry"?

I'm sure it ties in somehow because one of the original quotes was something to the effect of "Let's get the band back together". But then, I'm too tired also.

trainer101 · Post by **trainer101** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:42 am

Forgot to add - from the bottom of the profile:

Name: Linc
when things go awry, i curl up to a good house.

gogo · Post by **gogo** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:46 am

The author of House of Leaves wrote his novel as his sister, Poe, recorded a full-length album of the same story.

"Poe's statement on the connection between the two works is that they are parallax views of the same story. House of Leaves references Poe and her songs several times..."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

hmmm...

trainer101 · Post by **trainer101** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:48 am

I smell smoke.

janesalteredstates · Post by **janesalteredstates** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:08 pm

trainer101 wrote:I smell smoke.

Yeah, sorry. Thaat was me.

lg15panda · Post by **lg15panda** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:42 pm

If you're looking for an interesting, freaky book to read, I'd recommend House of Leaves. It must be a publisher's nightmare, though. Lots of pages where the footnotes take up the entire page, or where the text consists of a few sentences angled diagonally or spiralling inward. Sometimes there's even a page with just one word on it!

The most intriguing aspect of the book publishing-wise is that every mention of the word "house" (even Random House) is grayed-out (or, the opposite of bold). Also, any sentence mentioning "minotaur" is striked-out. All freaky, but a great effect.

The bolding of "house" in the profile is a nice reference to the effect in the book.

chershaytoute · Post by **chershaytoute** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:31 pm

Ah, yes... I did typesetting for awhile, several eons back, when typesetting was still done. I can't even begin to imagine having to do this book. This would have been a nightmare! (there's more than one reason right there to thank all the blue gods for computers, I'm telling you!) House of Leaves, for all that, would definitely have been a book that I'd've given anything to try working on though! (cuz I do love a challenge!

gogo · Post by **gogo** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:22 pm

So, does anyone else feel that House of Leaves is at all, in any way, kind of, sort of, or even remotely significant to understanding theD, or is it just my desperation to connect everything to literature?

chershaytoute · Post by **chershaytoute** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:04 pm

trainer101 wrote: I'm sure it ties in somehow because one of the original quotes was something to the effect of "Let's get the band back together". But then, I'm too tired also.

I dunno... Remember, that's also a quote from the Blues Brothers movie, which is kind of "period"...though not quite...

trainer101 wrote:Forgot to add - from the bottom of the profile:

Name: Linc when things go awry, i curl up to a good house.

And this, to me, seems to indicate that gogo's got it pegged, yes... <nodding terribly sagely> <grin>

trainer101 · Post by **trainer101** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:14 pm

gogo wrote:So, does anyone else feel that House of Leaves is at all, in any way, kind of, sort of, or even remotely significant to understanding theD, or is it just my desperation to connect everything to literature?

I think you're right on the money with this. I'll have to break out the book now, but perhaps the parallax reference is significant.