| Friday, June 22, 2001 |
 | As ever comically behind in my reading, I've just started House of Leaves. If the joke turns out to be that a book is a "house of leaves", I'm going to kill and eat someone.
So far, not bad at all, and interesting. A piece of mock academia, with a metanarrative accompaniment expressed through footnotes. Which is dinky. Although disorienting. The subject matter and thus much of the reference are presented as avowedly fictitious, but then one starts getting dragged into the gutters. Is there a reason why "Iamblichus" is spelled "Iamblicus"? Is there a point? Or did the author realise that nobody was likely to call him on this? Or did he not know himself? Or is there an Iamblicus without the "h" kicking around as well? And who is Number One?
Apparently the narrative mutates throughout the startling heft of the book. I look forward with interest.
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