History Fridge / HouseOfLeaves

** [[spoiler: When Navidson reads]] [[MetaFiction House]] [[spoiler:''of Leaves'' at the end]], he says that the book is 736 pages long. The hardcover in RealLife is only 709 pages. But Navidson has already read 26 pages; take that as you will. Then again, the total page count (of the paperback full-colour edition anyway) ''is'' 736, when one includes a page of reviews, the title page, the copyright information, the Contents page, the Foreword, Johnny's Introduction and the other side of the "Yggdrasil" poem.
** Over-filled and spilling things are a theme through the book. E.g. Navy putting too much coffee on his cup. The coffee is a clever allusion to the problem he is facing at that point in the book: the fact that his [[ArcWords house]] appears to be bigger than its exterior. Navidson fills the coffee all the way to the very top, where surface tension allows the level of liquid to rise ever so slightly above the edge of the cup. Like the [[ArcWords house]], the coffee takes up more volume than its container suggests.

--> Tom: [[spoiler: At least when you're drunk, you've always got the floor for your best friend. Know why?]]
--> Navy: [[spoiler: It's always there for you.]]

* At the books close, Navidson begins to burn a book so he has light to read by, reducing it to one page. Once he finishes, the [[ArcWords house]] around him vanishes, leaving him plummeting into the dark. What book did he just burn? [[spoiler: The [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou House]] of Leaves.]]
* The untitled poem by Zampano suggests "...this great blue world of ours, seems a house of leaves, moments before the wind." Our great blue world, seems a [[HauntedHouse house]]... is the [[NothingIsScarier house]] in blue a reference to our world made based on this poem?

* When Navidson states that the [[GeniusLoci house]] is God, he's not just speaking from delusion. Aside from its defiance of the laws of physics, impossible age and size, and apparent sentience, there's also the fact that the [[DarkIsEvil house]], like the Christian God, seems to exist in triplicate; as the [[HauntedHouse house]], as the labyrinth, and as the Minotaur.

* Tucked away in the footnotes for a discussion on the nature of the House is an odd claim that one popular theory (that the location of Navidson's House is only important insofar as it is a singular place) has since been disproven, and a reference to something contained in the book's many indices. If the reader chooses to flip there, it's still easy to miss what it links to. In a photo of the original pages written by Zampanó, there's a scrap of paper that was left out of the final book for some reason or another. Its block of typewritten text describes [[spoiler:a house built in Washington state, on a site where explorers found a mysterious set of stairs leading into the ground, similar to the stairs found by hunters from the Jamestown Colony]]. The implication is pretty clear, even if it's never directly commented on again: [[spoiler:''there are other sites like Navidson's House''. Although the one in Virginia has been walled off, and its counterpart in Washington was apparently destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, it's likely that there are others just waiting for someone to stumble into them]]. Another photograph in the "Contrary Evidence" appendix also seems to make reference to this [[spoiler:second House. A book on the history of the Northwest Coast has dark walls, doors, and stairways scribbled all over its title page]].

*** Outside of the [[EldritchLocation house]], maybe. Inside, all bets are off.

* Tucked away in the footnotes for a discussion on the nature of the House is an odd claim that one popular theory (that the location of Navidson's House is only important insofar as it is a singular place) has since been disproven, and a reference to something contained in the book's many indices. If the reader chooses to flip there, it's still easy to miss what it links to. In a photo of the original pages written by Zampanó, there's a scrap of paper that was left out of the final book for some reason or another. Its block of typewritten text describes [[spoiler:a house built in Washington state, on a site where explorers found a mysterious set of stairs leading into the ground, similar to the stairs found by hunters from the Jamestown Colony]]. The implication is pretty clear, even if it's never directly commented on again: [[spoiler:''there are other sites like Navidson's House''. Although the one in Virginia has been walled off, and its counterpart in Washington was apparently destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, it's likely that there are others just waiting for someone to stumble into them]].

*** In addition to what the above comment notes (that section of the book seems dedicated to odd discoveries that suggest the Navidson Record ''is not'' purely Zampanó's invention), Zampanó had people transcribe some of his writing. Although its placement in "contrary evidence" suggests that the comic was found by someone other than Truant and predates the publication of his book, it could have been produced for Zampanó by one of his readers, or made by one of them after working with him but before his death. This, along with the other images in that section, are by their very nature pretty ambiguous.

*** In addition to what the above comment notes (that section of the book seems dedicated to odd discoveries that suggest the Navidson Record ''is not'' purely Zampanó's invention), Zampanó had people transcribe some of his writing. Although its placement in "contrary evidence" suggests that it was found by someone other than Truant and predates the publication of his book, it could have been produced for Zampanó by one of his readers, or made by one of them after working with him but before his death. This, along with the other images in that section, are by their very nature pretty ambiguous.

* Tucked away in the footnotes for a discussion on the nature of the house is an odd claim that one popular theory (that the location of Navidson's House is only important insofar as it is a singular place) has since been disproven, and a reference to something contained in the book's many indices. If the reader chooses to flip there, it's still easy to miss what it links to, a small scrap of paper hidden in a photo of the original pages written by Zampanó that was left out of the final book for some reason or another. The crossed-out block of typewritten text there describes [[spoiler:a house built in Washington state on a site where explorers had found a mysterious set of stairs leading into the ground]]. The implication there is pretty clear, even if it's never directly commented on again: [[spoiler:although the building itself was apparently destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, ''there are other sites like Navidson's House'', just waiting for someone to stumble into them]].

* The untitled poem by Zampano suggests "...this great blue world of ours, seems a [[UltimateEvil house]] of leaves, moments before the wind." Our great blue world, seems a [[HauntedHouse house]]... is the [[NothingIsScarier house]] in blue a reference to our world made based on this poem?

* At one point, the editors mention that they are not sure who originally put in the bizzare formatting. It is very similar to the formatting Johnny's mother's letters had, which suggests it was Johnny that put in that formatting.

*** I read that and immediately thought about the dimensions of a picture, until I saw the bue.

* In the part where Tom and Navidson are compared to Jacob and Esau, Zampano complains about Jacob decieving his blind father. He remarks that, in Deutronomy, it is written that “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”. The FridgeLogic kicks in when one realises that the Jewish laws weren't written yet when Jacob and Esau where around.

* This exchange, which is more like Fridge Irony. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Really,]] really [[TearJerker painful irony]]:

** [[spoiler: When Navidson reads ''[[MetaFiction House]] of Leaves'' at the end]], he says that the book is 736 pages long. The hardcover in RealLife is only 709 pages. But Navidson has already read 26 pages; take that as you will. Then again, the total page count (of the paperback full-colour edition anyway) ''is'' 736, when one includes a page of reviews, the title page, the copyright information, the Contents page, the Foreword, Johnny's Introduction and the other side of the "Yggdrasil" poem.

** Exactly how long is ''The Navidson Record''? There's no way everything that was shown in that documentary fit into a film even as long as the Director's Cut of ''Film/ReturnOfTheKing''.

** [[spoiler: When Navidson reads House of Leaves at the end]], he says that the book is 736 pages long. The hardcover in RealLife is only 709 pages. But Navidson has already read 26 pages; take that as you will. Then again, the total page count (of the paperback full-colour edition anyway) ''is'' 736, when one includes a page of reviews, the title page, the copyright information, the Contents page, the Foreword, Johnny's Introduction and the other side of the "Yggdrasil" poem.
** Over-filled and spilling things are a theme through the book. E.g. Navy putting too much coffee on his cup. The coffee is a clever allusion to the problem he is facing at that point in the book: the fact that his house appears to be bigger than its exterior. Navidson fills the coffee all the way to the very top, where surface tension allows the level of liquid to rise ever so slightly above the edge of the cup. Like the house, the coffee takes up more volume than its container suggests.

* At the books close, Navidson begins to burn a book so he has light to read by, reducing it to one page. Once he finishes, the house around him vanishes, leaving him plummeting into the dark. What book did he just burn? [[spoiler: The House of Leaves.]]
* The untitled poem by Zampano suggests "...this great blue world of ours, seems a house of leaves, moments before the wind." Our great blue world, seems a house... is the house in blue a reference to our world made based on this poem?

*** Outside of the [[color:blue:house]], maybe. Inside, all bets are off.

* So if Pelafina lied when she said she had tried to strangle Johnny...''where the hell did the scars in Johnny's neck that his boss also sees came from?''

* At least three of the fake interviews are with authors who have a SelfInsert character in their work: Stephen King, Douglas Hofstadter and Hunter S. Thompson.