House of Leaves
“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love, There is only silence.”.
Echos have always creeped me out. They show that the place you are in is very long and you usually always hear echos when you are in the pitch black. But this book once again has challenged my beliefs. Because that statement is completley true. There is only silence if there isn’t an echo and isn’t silence scarier then knowing that the room actually ends somewhere?
In the book they used this as a comparison: When you drop a pebble in a well, you expect to hear it hit the ground with a thump, but when it doesn’t hit the ground it frightens you because then it seems to you the well never ends. Well an echo is proof that the room ends somewhere, without the echo, you have no proof that the room will ever end.
I love when you can’t put a book down and you sit up all night even though your exhausted just reading the next line just because you wanna know what it is going to say. This is one of those books, house of leaves. It really does make you think about everything and it also makes you laugh. My advice, READ IT.
