Letter Velvet - By Kacie Cooper Stotler

What is Real in the House of Leaves?

Quickly rising to cult status, Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves is no ordinary novel — it’s a maze-like microcosm within another, and within another beyond that, infinitely smashed between the front and back cover. With each footnote, narrator, and article from its appendix, House of Leaves leads the reader deeper and deeper into a never-ending abyss — an inverted labyrinth.

Kacie
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Moll Flanders is a Clockwork Orange

Moll Flanders is a clockwork orange. But what exactly is a clockwork orange? According to Anthony Burgess, a clockwork orange describes one who “has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State.”

Kacie
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