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Come on people, Anne deserves a fucking reply here if for no other reason than the very eloquent and well-thought-out first post she supplied.
I'd do it myself, but I haven't finished the ferschluggener book yet.
This post will have footnotes in order to make it on-topic.
1. No, I'm not Jewish, I just like using Yiddish words for flavor sometimes.
2. No, I'm not sticking up for Anne or her thread just because I'm kind of crushing on her. I actually think the thread has validity.
edited 5th Nov '11 10:49:18 PM by EnemyMayan
Jesus saves. Gretzky steals, he scores!Okay, so the obvious question: how much swordfighting is there? Important.
Swordsman Troper — Reclaiming The Blade — WatchI think the OP is really interesting, I just don't have anything to add. I'm a bit ashamed that I didn't catch all the references to ash trees tying into the "Yggdrasil" poem. I connected the poem to the title "House of Leaves", but that's about it.
Really enjoyed the book, though. In fact, now I feel like re-reading it...
It's funny, actually, when I finished the book and got to the "Yggdrasil" thing I was completely puzzled - what did it have to do with anything? Later I realized that there were related references here and there in the text.
But, I still don't know what to make of it beyond that.
no one will notice that I changed thisI had just finished House of Leaves and was in desperate need of sleep when I wrote this.
While reading the book I was wondering over the significance of the Yggdrasil page after the index, and then after finishing the book it clicked for me.
Ash Tree Lane, duh.
edited 6th Nov '11 5:24:32 PM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.

A tree is a house of leaves.
This is a story of a tree that grows in between worlds. As a tree, it grows and stretches out its many branches, and as a tree, it can be eaten, burned and cut down. Only worlds and the things that live in them are bound by logic or stability, and thus the Ash Tree that grows between worlds is not.
Yggdrasil is Odin's horse. Odin hanged himself on the Ash Tree for nine (9) days, and brought back knowledge and wisdom. For whom? No one but himself. Wisdom is a territory, and he will conquer it, and he will die to that end. Odin was born before there was a world. He was born where there was nothing, but because he killed Ymir and made a world out of him he knows that at the end of nothing, there is something.
Aaaaaand I don't know where I was going with this I finished this book yesterday including the back matter it's an awesome book and it's called Ash Tree Lane and there are some other references to ash trees and I think Johnny sits under an ash tree at one point ash trees are important in this book guys including that big labyrinthine one that sits in between nine (9) worlds and at the very end of this book.
I'm amused by the fact that when I inquired about the scariest creepiest most horrifying book that will make me shit my pants this was the most recommended book, but so far it has only fascinated me and moved me like any other.
</annebeeche spouts nonsense regarding Norse myth>
EDIT: inb4 beforeiclickedonit.avi
edited 30th Oct '11 11:39:46 AM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.