More on Mr. Danielewski

So, to deliver those further meditations on House of leaves, as I said I would in the bookstore's blog, I have decided that Mark Z. Danielewski is also like "The Joker". Nothing in his work is ever "that" simple. That said, when one considers the house on Ash Tree Lane, it would seem that even this most disturbing impossibility of a situation is even deeper than illustrated. Perhaps it has to do with the constant filming, and cameras. The Media? Big Brother? Sentience of Machines? Obviously the place is more than just a simple haunted house. But, what it is, and what it becomes...well, questions the nature of even the word "it". The idea alone would have made the book unlike any other, but Danielewski had to go about a thousand miles further and create a masterpiece which physically (in layout, ink, binding, etc.) contained all the vicissitudes of the story itself.
Maybe that place is where the paranormal, love, agony, improbability, karma, darkness and space all converge, whether by accident or some universal necessity.
Take also his commentary-from the perspective of critics, on his own writing, about the film he made up-on Navidson's alleged "bad acting" in the very beginning of the film. Will Navidson was chided by a particular critic for making it seem like he had no idea what was to happen in that house. So, rather unsettlingly, the story began with a family starting over, relishing in their newfound serenity and happiness, completely oblivious to the madness waiting within. This is amazing mainly because that story template is utterly common and predictable. I then guessed that Danielewski must have been using that particular voice's (in-book critic) commentary for the dual purpose of conveying that this template is used all too often in literature & film, and to rather criticize his own use of the standard. However, doing so almost negates his own use of it, and in a very clever way.
These moments in House of Leaves are ones that tell me, without a doubt, just how brilliant Mark Z. Danielewski is. As I finish the book, I'm sure I'll have more to say about it, and I'm sure people will roll their eyes.

"Metatron:...The one who speaks - and he will, at great lengths, whether you want him to or not - will make mention of himself as a prophet."