#zampanó

[ender-manly]

Finally started reading House of Leaves. They should call it House of run-on sentences

[para-psychopathology]

[kazthropology]

maybe the true fake movie was the nightmares we had along the way

[artifint]

has anybody else read house of leaves by mark z. danielewski or s by doug durst/jj abrams? if so i would love to talk to you

[movietonight]

Rip Zampanó you'd have loved Goncharov

[snailmusic]

there are the weirdest minute details like why did he have to describe navidison's feet??

[skhardwarevers1]

Post exam ritual of having ramen complete I can move on from that shit show now

[lestatslestits]

I am rotating a House of Leaves AU in my brain where Daniel is Johnny but I’m honestly not smart enough to write it and also how do you format that shit on AO3?

[keepinventory]

reading house of leaves. can this guy fucking shut up

[batfilledsky]

What if I did House of Leaves formatting on all my posts, would that be good, would people like that? 1

1 It's unclear what exactly Sky meant by this. House of Leaves has a large number of distinctive formatting quirks, most of which aren't available in Tumblr text posts. Further analysis of this claim can be found in "Metatextual Pretension", Anders Academia, 1989; and associated works. 2

2 Unclear this, clarity that. Sometimes the search for clarity reminds me of my own desperate attempts to find meaning in this world. Sometimes it just compels me to lie around the house doing drugs, though. I had a difficult childhood. 3

3 It is unknown whether they had a difficult childhood or not, as we never met them over the course of the publishing process. -Editor

[ironiccryptid]

got about 10 pages into house of leaves before realising i was visualising zampanó as old man mcgucket

[fireball-me]

Still thinking about how when I first checked House of Leaves out at the library, the checkout computer listed the author as Zampanó. Why did it do that; lol

[letrune]

How I would adapt House of Leaves to television

A miniseries with three segments:

The Navidson Record. It is this found-footage-esque horror of the weird house itself.

Zampanò's comments and reenactment of the Navidson Record.

Johnny's vlogs and reenacted events and stuff that happened to him.

As the episodes go on, these three parts shift between each other. As in the book, more and more screentime is taken over by the third one, eventually forming a meta-arc.

An entire episode that starts with the Navidson Record, interjected by Johnny's in-the-corner commentary, which eventually turns out to be longer than the actual footage of the Navidson Record in the story itself.

Screen next to screen, with multiple different arcs going on at the same time.

Will Navidson says a sentence, cut to Zampanó's reenactment of the same scene being different, which stops mid-sentence to Johnny's comments, which then turns into a short story, then we DON'T finish the second layer of reenactments.

Maybe even a fourth layer on top, a "making-of", which starts straight enough, but turns out to be a fictionalised version of the very series itself.

But that is just my take. Maybe others got better ideas. I mean, there is a reason why Mark Z. Danielewski doesn't let us into this house.

[afklancelot]

imagine a fan that likes Johnny Truant’s sections but hates The Navidson Record/the house/Zampanó’s segments. this person complains that TNR bogs down the book as a whole and they want to get back to the “good part” (Johnny). they deem the house as unnecessary to the plot and having no deeper symbolism or not adding to the themes in the story. furthermore, they only see Zampanó as a framing device for Johnny Truant’s narrative.

this is how some Johnny haters act like to me.

[naggingatlas]

it's honestly kind of crazy what mouthwashing fans are doing to these characters it's like if they animated old man zampanó's corpse to caramelldansen

[revindicatedbyhistory]

i saw the name zampanó and went where is that from it doesnt sound english and the only match i can find is from an italian movie from the 50s named la strada where a character is a guy named that? which is so random it doesnt seem like the thing being referenced but maybe there is some link i just dont know. cause i havent seen the movie