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My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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Mark Z. Danielewski
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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Through all the windows I only see infinity.
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And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
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Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.
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Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was So? The boat's gone. So? Your mate's dead. So? Hey at least you're alive. So? An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.
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Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.
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House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear.
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Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
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My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
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Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?
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Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.
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Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
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I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.
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