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So I was starting to doze off with my computer when Diane knocks on my door and says "I have to show you the freakiest thing."

She's like "You've read House of Leaves, right?" and proceeds to take me downstairs so we can look in through the basement door with a flashlight and she says "the other day, I swear I saw a room over there, with a chair and a cord for a light...but now? It's just a wall."

...and okay, it wasn't so much a wall as a door, right, but there was a light on behind it and we couldn't figure out what part of the house it was under. And she has someone she works with over, and he's totally non-plussed by any of this, so we show him the book and talk about how freaky it is, and how it's set in Virginia, and how our landlord has another property that was a funeral home and there's an embalming room in the basement that's all tiled and has a drain in the floor.

......but anyway, so the moral of the story is Diane comes in again after he leaves and reminds me that my storm window is open, and we try to shut it and we can't, and now she's gone to bed to listen to Poe's "Haunted" and I'm in my room and I'm afraid to put my back to the windows.

So Diane is awesome, but now I'll have to sleep with a light on.

And it's dark in Lisa's room. I hope her walls haven't turned black.

Date: 2006-09-07 05:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] decken.livejournal.com
I like how you'll do the blue text thing for the title, but won't underline or italicize it. ;)

Date: 2006-09-07 06:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kleptoneko.livejournal.com
... but that's because it's a quote.. cus like, when you say the name of the book, it will turn your voice blue!

Date: 2006-09-07 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] decken.livejournal.com
...maybe if you have that thing that starts with an 'S' where you hear colours.

Date: 2006-09-07 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kleptoneko.livejournal.com
synesthesia?? i don't know... i think House of Leaves is just that special

Date: 2006-09-07 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] decken.livejournal.com
Yes probably. I just couldn't think of the word.
I opened that book once at a library, and just looking at it annoyed me.

Date: 2006-09-07 07:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kleptoneko.livejournal.com
i gave it to my roommate as her birthday present 2 years ago, she really liked it, but never finished it.

i never bothered to read it, though have wanted to before.
i'm too lazy.

Date: 2006-09-07 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maypirate.livejournal.com
IT IS FULL OF SCARINESS!

(Scariness!)

Date: 2006-09-07 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maypirate.livejournal.com
I went back and italicized it, you monkey. :p

But you have to say it in blue! It's just how it's done!

Date: 2006-09-08 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] decken.livejournal.com
Bwahah! I have power!

HAOWEirhldntgsdntgdsdstgfsoihtgw! Fucking postmodernity.

Date: 2006-09-07 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shichahn.livejournal.com
XDD Sleep well~!

Date: 2006-09-07 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maypirate.livejournal.com
Nice!

That picture used to be the wallpaper on my big desktop computer. Which is/was named Navy. And is, appropriately, evil.

People would look at it and go "nice desktop" and then they'd really look at it and be like "...wait a minute..." and be kinda spooked. :p

Date: 2006-09-07 10:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sky-dark.livejournal.com
that is freaky, incredibly freaky. Good luck with the creepy, shifting house there *edges away*

Date: 2006-09-07 03:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoechan.livejournal.com
I don't think I could live in a house that gets compared to house of leaves. Time ta go!

Date: 2006-09-07 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hagane-no.livejournal.com
I'm going to have to read House of Leaves now... o-o

Date: 2006-09-07 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feast.livejournal.com
OH NO. IT'S TURNED INTO THE NAVIDSON HOUSE. AND WE ARE GOING TO BECOME YOUR JOHNNY TRUANTS.

But, um, best of wishes, and:

Date: 2006-09-08 09:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maypirate.livejournal.com
OH MY GOD MINOTAUR HEART!

Wait, it should be more like...


oh my god



A
minotaur heart
in the comments on my LJ

Date: 2006-09-08 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feast.livejournal.com
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT THAT GROANING SOUND IS.

REMEMBER THE MORSE CODE FOR SOS. LISTEN FOR IT.

Date: 2006-09-08 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] look-alive.livejournal.com
Yeah, you might wanna look out for that... Don't let the house eat you in your sleep. Always check the windows
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