I would like to talk about the
Introduction because I think how you read this really explains the rest of the
book for you. It opens with a narrator who is clearly unreliable; “I tried
every pill imaginable… with shots of bourbon… a few lung rasping bong hits”
(xi). The narrator tells us he is so tried and needs sleep and he still gets
nightmares. I notice that like this narrator the entire book is crazy, upside down,
right to left, blank, underlined, etc. The last line of the introduction, “And
then the nightmares will begin” so is this whole book just one big, drug
induced nightmare because I think it is.
The
house is also the center point for the story; everything it seems is connected
by this “optical illusion” of a home. I think house is in blue throughout the
entire book for a reason. The layout of the book is exactly like the
description of the house itself. Danielewski is breaking a lot of rules and yet
follows them at the same time.
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