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I'm writing this essay on The Navidson Record to bring attention to what the house did to Will Navidson.¹

1. I have no idea what Zampano meant by this sentence. What did the house do to Navy?²

2. It fucked that middle-aged man - The Editors

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watching house

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my dealer: got some straight gas🔥😛 this strain is called house of leaves😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd💯

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel shit

5 min later: dude i swear the house is 1/4" bigger on the inside

my buddy, will navidson, pacing: our house is God

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Chapter 5

(part 1)

p. 41: Not a real note but R. K. Narayan is my friend’s name and I’m aware it’s not exactly uncommon but still very unsettling to run into when not expecting it

p. 41: “Tears her to pisces”, not “pieces”. I checked and it’s in the index, so on some level an intentional typo, but whose?

p. 42: I found 4-5 different translations of the Latin, all a little bit more literal than the one given in the text but overall not too different. Here’s an example:

Spurned, she hides in the woods and covers her shamed face with leaves. From that time on she lives alone in caves. But still love grips her and grows stronger with the pain of rejection. Sleepless cares waste away her poor body. Leanness attacks her skin and the lifeblood of her body evaporates into the air. Only her bones and her voice remain. Her voice stays with us; they say that her bones became transformed into the shape of a stone.

From then on she stays hidden in the woods and is no longer seen on any mountain. All hear her, though: the sound that lives in her.

(Translation from Rachel Carter via the Classics Library)

p. 42: The Spanish translation is correct I think. “émula” generally means emulate or follow, but the online translations consistently say “rival” so it’s probably just an additional definition I’m not aware of.

p. 43: Zonule of Zinn is the ring of fibers around the lens of the eye that hold it in place and flatten it when focusing on something far away.

“Suspensory ligaments” is a much clearer name but does not have the benefit of sounding like a character in Wizard of Oz.

p. 44: talaria - winged sandals, like Hermes

#weasel reads house of leaves #the navidson record #medical for ts #flashbacks to sheep eye dissection in high school #how I became a vegetarian #well actually it was the pigs that did it but anyways

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(Gordon ramsay chewing out a restaurant owner over his old expired ingredients) And where the fuck does this door lead? If I see a- (there is a hallway miles long, with ashen black walls and no end in sight)¹

1. oh for fucks sake

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Chapter 4

(part 3)

p. 34:

Apparently these are two separate Latin quotes.

Tum vero omne mihi visum considere in ignis Ilium:

Then indeed all Troy seemed to me to sink into flames:

From the Aeneid. And

Delenda est Carthago.[41]

Carthage must be destroyed.

which Reddit says is a quote from Cato and others. Wikipedia makes it sound like it was Cato’s slogan while warmongering basically.

p. 36: bistre - a brown-yellow color from wood soot. Another big word for Truant to know, weird. Didn’t they also say in the intro that Zampanò was obsessed with colors?

p. 38: quote in French

Les jeux sont fait. Nous sommes fucked.[44]

All bets are off. We’re fucked.

Made me laugh ngl. Wish I knew how to pronounce it.

p. 39: Zampanò making the same “could of” error as Truant, or is this how the actual author writes? Makes me wonder who edited this beast.

Update: now that I’ve looked at the forums, I’m fairly sure this is intentional... I did a text search on the online version, there’s 2 “could of”s, one in a Zampanò section and one in a Truant section, and 31 “could have”s, in both of their sections again, so clearly they both know how it’s supposed to be written.

But there’s 4 “should of”s, all in Truant’s sections. And 27 “should have”s in both of their sections. What I’m getting is these typos are rare but I think it’s definitely more consistent with Truant’s narrative voice. What makes the most sense to me is that the “of”s instead of “have”s in The Navidson Record are probably introduced by Truant, maybe this is a section he heavily edited or even wrote himself?

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can someone tell me what's up with my minecraft? is this a new update or something?

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1986 pt 2: silence again

The Whalestoe Letters

May 31, 1986 p. 616

ddfomsommjaatwaaepitaycsyminnnyntifmrtifyhcinystwappaneavlgdymhthpomtstgysfywywoygginbaltaemfewteiaalh

July 6, 1986 p. 616-617

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September 18, 1986 p. 617-618

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December 6, 1986 p. 618

mdstmaofnoyfasetndfcihniythfysbnnoyitlowwiwyalyityhytrallrmshiafauptnditafympsijtwtohiuywbootbdnbatlltdmiwygimbbbiwbtmtlwitsidfttbyabmcmrmllu

Looks like no codes in any of the 1986 letters except the first, oh well

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1985 pt 3: nothing

The Whalestoe Letters

September 30, 1985 p. 610

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October 4, 1985 p. 611

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October 10, 1985 p. 612

dddjwhygnwfyiahatatbmaadasnhafytndstsifntakylfmtptplmkbtmstceajbdmomosimbswdaw

October 12, 1985 p. 612

dacjshiymiictndyadhhoyloahiyhnwaiwhnoiacqasamsfhccbqaatsettpmidtdnhoywillywhtchnfmlfyemcaaw

November 1, 1985 p. 613

djwyeataiwcwtlseomaocyhertbsubmitydttiwsctswhylbwnywglwwhthdytmybwtabttcdttmymbbadtffjktttrmiyhttmauftiasabnebykttaycdnwwiriestdtwiaoisfondwmwftaattahotkuftewkroltitifanaoicttmyaulbotlowyimasyfahiryl

Now I’ve confirmed there’s no simple first-letter codes in the letters before the 1986 one. Oh well, at least now I know.

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1985 pt 2: still nothing

The Whalestoe Letters

August 23, 1985 p. 606

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September 5, 1985 p. 606-607

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September 14, 1985 p. 607-609

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September 19, 1985 p. 609

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1985 pt 1: nope

The Whalestoe Letters

March 7, 1985 p. 602

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April 13, 1985 p. 603

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May 11, 1985 p. 603

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There’s also a page break marker thing at the end of this letter, which there isn’t in most of the others. Not sure if it means anything but this book makes me overthink every tiny variation

July 24, 1985 p. 604-605

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ugh maybe I really am wasting my time.

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1984 pt 2: still nothing

The Whalestoe Letters, June 26, 1984 p. 599

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September 7, 1984 p. 599-601

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October 14, 1984 p. 601

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1984 pt 1: still nothing

The Whalestoe Letters, March 15, 1984 p. 596-597

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I really thought that weird poetic last paragraph was going to be a code, but it’s at least not this simple first letter kind.

April 22, 1984 p. 597-598

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June 3, 1984 p. 598

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1983 pt 2: nothing

The Whalestoe Letters, August 19, 1983 p. 592-593

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September 29, 1983 p. 593-594

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October 15,1983 p. 594

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December 24, 1983 p. 595

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1983 pt 1: no codes

First letter of every word, split out by paragraph

The Whalestoe Letters, January 20, 1983 p. 589

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February 14, 1983 p. 589-590

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April 17, 1983 p. 590-591

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May 9, 1983 p. 591-592

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June 21, 1983 p. 592

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