friesel writ:
7/8 - XIII.
:The Minotaur
↳ deep backref
& Borges
Chad’s drawing:
(Daisy draws the same house)
re: Chad - Truant’s own play yard scuffles? (Johnny as Chad as Johnny?)
see also: Chat’s occasional disappearance (“truancy”) from the house
fn.260 : PBS documentary broadcast @ 1996
fn.265 : novelization? @ 1994?
pp.319 - “…heard the great Spiral Staircase yawn beneath them…” « emphasis added »
fn.275 (pp.322-3) - Navidson : thinking about his family is what gets him back home; also: for him the HAllway is longer where for all others it was shorter (!?)
fn.276 (pp.327) [Truant] - “Re-inter this thing in a binding tomb. Make it only a book…” « emphasize: “binding” and “only a book” - a story as a living thing? the book as its corpse? (see also: Neal Stephenson “gold is the corpse of value”) »
pp.333 - “turns the camera on himself” [after all that discussion of suicide?]
fn.302 (pp.338) - “[Zampanò]’s trapped inside me…” (me = Truant [evidence for the theory that there is no Zampanò])
ref @ Phalaris’ - brass (“brazen”) bull
- Minotaur
- vessel for Truant?
when threatened by the house : Karen retreats (flees? escapes?) into the “original” hallway (that connects Parents’ to Children’s room) - to escape the house violence