History WMG / HouseOfLeaves

[[WMG: The house is made from the wood of the Kite Eating Tree from {{Peanuts}}]]

Would be even more brilliant if Xanther actually reads ''House of Leaves'' (the book as we know it in Real Life) In Universe and gets the idea to name the cat "Redwood" from that.

[[WMG:This book is related to, stay with me, ''WiiFit'']]

* Nope. Its floorplan was drawn up by Lovecraft, then it was constructed by the same guy who built the house in TheDionaeaHouse on the site where Silent Hill was/will be.

** Johnny shows behavior like this when he gives all of Lude's dates messed up back stories, and when he tries to convince himself that he had a happy ending. Obviously, making up stories is normal for him.

* -->Little solace comes

* Therefore, keeping the two theories above in mind, this Wiki is the house, which is the world, which is God, and because [[InsaneTrollLogic God is Love, and Love is blind]], TV Tropes is secretly Zampano!
** I love you.
** This explains so much.

[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Specifically,]] [[TomatoInTheMirror yours.]]

* WikiWord: Turns blue to link to another place, making each page of TVTropes effectively BiggerOnTheInside. The [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves House]]: Typed in blue in the book as the first indication that the [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves House]] is like a WikiWord, linking to another place, and BiggerOnTheInside.

* Alternatively, it is in some way connected to SilentHill. "Physical manifestation of guilt", anybody?
** I think anybody who played the Catacombs level of ''SilentHill2'' before reading this book had a very distinct mental image of the Labyrinth in this story, regardless of how the book describes it, and possibly wonders if it might be a spiritual cousin of Pyramid Head the explorers hear rampaging in the distant darkness...

...is SlenderMan.

[[WMG: House of Leaves is a part of the SlenderManMythos]]

''[[EldritchLocation House]] of Leaves'' is not good or evil. It is a piece of nothing wrapped comfortably in narrative. Devour it. Chew on it. Taste the empty, [[WorldHalfEmpty and let your body learn to fight it.]]

Each layer deeper into fiction we get, the less evidence remains of the Navidsons' existence. We are the fiction within the fiction within the fiction within the fiction within the Navidsons' reality.

You end up in [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia!]]

[[WMG: TimeCube is actually an extension of the house.]]

*** ..."He(Ts'ui Pên) must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing".-Creator/JorgeLuisBorges...who just happened to write a short story called "The House of Asterion" about [[spoiler: the Minotaur.]] Definitely not a coincidence.

[[WMG: The Minotaur is the same entity as the Minotaur from DavidBowie's ''1.outside''.]]

[[WMG:The Minotaur is [[VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Beatrice.]]]]

A house that has an endless basement? Monsters living in the walls? Obviously Johnny is JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac.

** Actually, this is supported by the fact that the first Slenderblog, JustAnotherFool, had its protagonist live on Ash Tree Lane.

The last part, "who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children," is exactly like what happens to Will Navidson in his final journey into the house - he brings along a copy of a book called ''HouseOfLeaves'' and burns it as he reads it. He then gets out of the house for the last time after having completely burned the book.

* WikiWord: Turns blue to link to another place, making each page of TVTropes effectively BiggerOnTheInside. The [[HouseOfLeaves House]]: Typed in blue in the book as the first indication that the [[HouseOfLeaves House]] is like a WikiWord, linking to another place, and BiggerOnTheInside.

[[WMG: ''Series/{{House}}'' shares a universe with ''HouseOfLeaves'', and Dr. Gregory House comes from that house.]]

** Johny shows behavior like this when he gives all of Lude's dates messed up back stories, and when he tries to convince himself that he had a happy ending. Obviously, making up stories is normal for him.

I don't mean nothing in the traditional sense. I mean he was being attacked my absence itself. Much like Holloway and the Navidson family. The panic attacks (like the "don't look behind you" one or the one in his apartment) weren't just figments of his imagination. It was nothing assaulting him, it just manifested itself as, well, nothing. He felt it attacking him, he knew all the terrible things that could happen, and he saw it all in his mind but in reality there wasn't anything there because the attacker was "nothing."

This would explain the dreamlike bizarreness of the house, as well as the special attention to that particular word.

The Navidson family went to our universe using the house because they wanted to distance themselves from thier experiences in the house. They took on false names and seperated from eachother to hide from the house. Will became Zampano, Karen became Pelafina, and Chad became Johnny. Zampano raised Daisy and Pelafina raised Johnny (who both forgot about the house). To further hide from the house, Pelafina married Johnny's "father" and they both only communicated to each other through hidden messages. Unfortunately for Zampano, that wasn't enough.

[[WMG:This book is realated to, stay with me, ''WiiFit'']]

* I agree with your explanation, exspecially since the house is on Ash Tree lane. (The walls are described as ash-like, in theory the labyrinth is the yggdrasil tree, ie "Ash Tree.") It should be noted that in early sources, the Yggdrasil was an Ash tree specifically.

One of the footnotes in the book refers to the Universe pre-big bang as a place of infinite Destiny. Johnny notes that this is probably a typo, and that Zampano meant to say "Density" but look at it this way. Johnny constantly mentions things that happen in the book, only they never actually happen. The Johnny that we are following doesn't go down these paths, yet he constantly sees his own death, or sees minor things changed from what they were. Because he can see into these infinite possibilites, he starts to GoMadFromTheRevelation. Zampano could also see into these infinite "what-ifs", and the house on Ash Tree Lane was the physical manifestation of infinite possibilities becoming known. The reason Johnny can see all of these possible futures is because he, himself was never meant to exist. He was the child in the Mother's Story. In that world, he died, but in another world, he lived, and from that branch, Johnny could see into every fragment of time. Branches. Trees. Yggdrassil. In another timeline, Johnny might have become the Minotaur, or Zampano, either trying to stop himself before his mind broke under the strain of omniscience, or to give the gift of omniscience to himself through the book.

[[WMG: There is a piece of the begining of the universe stuck under the earth below the house.]]

And/Or Johnny is a Cult of Ecstasy mage captured by Nephandi, and the entire book is his stream-of-conciousness experience inside a Nephandic caul, which is the Labyrinth, which is an Umbral sub-realm accessed through a house.

and the whole story where Johnny goes to Ashley's house is made-up. He thinks that Thumper hasn't called him back because she said her name was Ashely on the phone, Thumper laughs when he tells her about Ashley because she is her, and also his mother had the same problem with him.

Nevermind all the conections to Borges work, Zampanò is a blind old man writting a MindScrew book, using references that doesn't exist, about a fictional movie.

In a very literal sense, this is a book about nothing. By that, I don't mean that it's incomprehensible, but rather, that it's about the Heideggerian concept of nothingess. The House is a place where, for some reason, temporal and spatial deformities can lead a person physically into a realm outside of the Universe. That realm is less "outside", though, then it is just ''not''. The chief distinction between it and the normal world is that the normal world is alienated from it and set in opposition to it. It's enormous, vast, ever changing, and becoming lost there results in the eventual loss of self when the nothingness around you starts to close in and you become alienated from yourself. That state of not-being is the Minotaur, and is why the word is crossed out several times when it appears.

[[WMG: The Navidsons are real, but we are ficticious.]]
Each layer outward becomes more ficticious.

Around this: a semi-scholarly film review by an eccentric who gets some key points wrong, such as forgetting about teminal velocity.

Each layer deeper into fiction we get, the less evidence remains of the Navidson's existance. We are the fiction within the fiction within the fiction within the fiction within the Navidson's reality.

* [[SarcasmMode Thanks a lot, bub.]] [[{{Gorillaz}} Some of us will never]] [[ParanoiaFuel sleep]] [[{{Gorillaz}} again...]]
* Since when did [[{{Gorillaz}} you guys]] read anything?

If the house is [[WorldTree Yggdrasil]], then the creature inside it can only be Nidhogg, the giant dragon that gnaws on the roots of the tree in order to bring it, and the universe down. Thus, we should probably start writing this as Nidhogg

* An interview with Danielewski [[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDQQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DP6J0JIjVKfI&ei=6lC0VIraAsamNo2LgrAB&usg=AFQjCNG5dvpd6K_briCNV_cXojm5iG6I9w&sig2=M0edC7eHr751xhX4Jac5ug an interview with Danielewski]], he says one of the first stories he wrote was a short novella about his father called "Redwood". He said his father read it and told him to get a job as a postal worker. So probably some unresolved issues there with the author's dad--an homage, a placeholder, what have you.