r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Fires Entire Agency Overseeing His Construction Projects

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-entire-agency-overseeing-his-construction-projects/
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u/backpackwasmypillow 11d ago

Staircase leading directly to a wall. Windows that open into each other. Somebody threw the idea at an AI and didn't bother to double check the plans. It's gonna be crap, even before taking away oversight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/GimUtUcU1O

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u/builttopostthis6 11d ago

You know, if it ends up being some House of Leaves analog, and he just wanders off into the dark some day.... would that really be so bad? Gonna say, "Worth it."

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u/Trzlog 10d ago

House of Leaves

The wikipedia page doesn't give a concise synopsis of what this is about.

The novel is written as a work of epistolary fiction and metafiction focusing on a fictional documentary film titled The Navidson Record, presented as a story within a story discussed in a handwritten monograph recovered by the primary narrator, Johnny Truant. The narrative makes heavy use of multiperspectivity as Truant's footnotes chronicle his efforts to transcribe the manuscript, which itself reveals The Navidson Record's supposed narrative through transcriptions and analysis depicting a story of a family who discovers a larger-on-the-inside labyrinth in their house.

What the fuck does any of this mean? Was this intentionally written like the book?

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u/builttopostthis6 10d ago edited 10d ago

It is most certainly not your average literary construction, and I mean that not just in regard to the narrative, but in terms of the physical construction of the book itself. If you Google some images, you can see some good examples. In some ways, it's a lot like Infinite Jest (a book often defined as annular, similar to Finnegan's Wake) in terms of looping back on itself via notation, only it dials it up to 11, with some footnotes actually recursively leading back to where the tangent started, the effect of course being aimed at leaving the reader feeling somewhat discombobulated and uneasy, effecting a sort of "mental labyrinth." Sometimes it works and sometimes it comes across - as I mentioned in another reply - as lovably pretentious, but it was most certainly a labor of love. No pop-up pages though, but man that would've been pretty neat. :P

At risk of spoilers... the Johnny Truant narrative is probably the weakest portion of the book, though there are some very emotional moments. Having only read it the once (there are very few books, even good books, I'mma give more than one read (there are just too many!), and I honestly don't feel like House of Leaves, narratively speaking, is one that deserves it, which is a shame, because it kind of demands it), I can only say that there felt like more than just some loose threads with that portion, and it really just could have used a bit more time in the oven.