I feel like when criticising places for not being wheelchair accessable enough, we need to drag House of Leaves into it more. “Oh you’re telling me this place is LESS wheelchair accessable than the house on Ashtree Lane?? Wheelchair users can get into the five and a half minute hallway but not your place of business? Are you less accesability focused than an unknowable, infinite, hostile physical anomaly? Get a fucking ramp.”
Navidson in the Navidson Record: My house is fucked, my marriage is fucked, my kids are all fucked up, and there’s definitely something dead in my walls.
the real horror of House of Leaves is being Karen and having 600 magazine articles and academic essays about why you’re a stupid skanky no-good bitch slut whore
Many critics of The Navidson Record have humorously added lines in their reviews about the comparative youth of the so-called characters depicted within. A line that is quoted consistently throughout papers is David Kahn’s iconic phrase: “Karen Green, a 37 year old woman, should not have been within the depths of that house. Being youthful, she should have instead been at the club."⁶⁹ Several responses to this paper have pointed out that just prior to the filming of The Navidson Record, Karen Green had been attending numerous clubs.⁷¹
⁶⁹ See David Kahn’s Ramblings and Blatherings about Ash Tree Lane, Tumbler Magazine, August 8th, 1994, reprinted December 16th, 2022⁷⁰
⁷⁰ Club, my ass. Lude tried to take me there last night. He called me and said something along the lines of "we should go out tonight, Hoss–coke’ll be cheap.” I can’t remember now. I just thought about the club, and it made me think about the poles there, pillars, like Greek architecture, monster and mansion combined. I didn’t sleep. I told him I’d be there, but I didn’t show up. He didn’t call back when I didn’t show. Something’s tearing apart my seams. Unraveling me like a ball of thread. I’m tired of this cat that’s playing with me. The claws are sinking in, tearing neon markers… Five more minutes.
