Yesterday I was giddy over Ubiquitous Computing and today it's Paranoid Melancholic Literariness

[angharad]

Narratives I need to read, of which fact I'm reminded by House of Leaves so far:

• Nausee
• Beowulf
• Grendel

Topics and Narratives to which House of Leaves alludes, without (yet) footnotes, and are therefore clearly part of the actual fictionier's toolkit as opposed to the Reality Novel Story:

• Beowulf (Grendel)
• Borges, and I need to mention this to D, from whom I borrowed this, to whom I lent my sorry English copy of the B, because it's likely not in that anthology:
  • Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote
• old-style fertility goddesses in general, but for our modern nerds let's say Easter from the Gaiman

Things which I read into HoL so far, bearing in mind I'm only on p68 / footnote 77:

• honestly, I’m getting an Agrajag vibe from N’s first foray + T’s early “hallucinations”
• besides the obvious G above
• and why wasn’t this around when I took my hero / underworld class back at Bennington?
• house < = > K’s psyche

Things that exist without exciting allusionary literaritude that don't excite me to feel old-school noun not verb "smart":

• travel reservations
• dishes
• backup 禅
• ordering a replacement ATM card
• booking a doctor appointment
• finding a place to
• fax in next term’s course registrations
• grocery shopping
• deciding whether I can go to a CLA conference in St John’s in May.

What I should be doing, instead of reading, if I can’t get off my butt:

• schoolwork