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whysopasta · 2 years ago

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So House of Leaves Appendix II-E is a collection of letters sent to one of the protagonists (Johnny Truant) by his institutionalized mother over the course of his adolescence and teenage years. I have so many thoughts about this part of the book but they're hard for me to articulate right now. It made me feel love and grief and loss and it made me sob with my head in my hands. Goodnight Pelafina, you're free now.

#whysopasta textpost #house of leaves #hol is full of these stories within stories but pelafina's stands apart #but nonetheless still intertwined with the rest of the story through her impact on Johnny #footnotes like oh yeah go check out appendix ii d and e for some background on johnny #and im like okay :) not realizing im about to read the most impactful part of the book yet #the way you have to read that one. that one in particular that's nonsense but you have to take the first letter of each word #how that part is so drawn out bc of the way you have to read it #how the book forces you into johnnys shoes by making you write out the true (and horribly sad) coded message #physically getting the reader involved #and the action of having to write it out yourself both extends it and emphasizes it #the book makes it impossible to just skim through quickly. you have to sit in it.#and how the letter reads like nonsense but in decoding it those words stand out and are given meaning by the true message #and how sometimes the the first letter of a word you're writing is the same as the word it's found in and how that makes those words stand u #out*#man. man

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