House of Leaves

Jan 14, 2011 23:53

So I'm reading this book called the House of leaves by Danielewski right now that someone suggested. I'm only a few pages in the introduction and it already has some great lines:

"Ever see yourself doing something in the past and no matter how many times you remember it you still want to scream stop, somehow redirect the action, reorder the present? I feel that way now, watching myself tugged stupidly along by inertia, my own inquisitiveness or whatever else, and it must have been something else, though what exactly I have no clue."

"I still get nightmares. In fact I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I’m not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares. For a while there i tried every pill imaginable. Anything to curb the fear. Excedrin PM, Melatonin, L-tryptophan, Vicodin, Valium, quite a few of the barbital family."

It's really frightening though. i'm kind of already afraid of it.
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