House of Leaves

Subject: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
Summary: A story about a house that is bigger inside than outside. Mind-boggling pages of research consumed with painstaking (fictitious?) footnotes. A dizzying array of commentary upon commentaries upon commentaries. An intro to the wonders of typography.

All of this and it leaves you with a blank stare and an expression of WOAH on your lips.

Anyway, I encountered an interesting paragraph today...

We watch reality television that has nothing to do with reality and use an information superhighway where the quality of said information is easily called in to doubt, regardless of the speed at which it arrives. We make the dangerous assumption that what we are seeing is real despite the fact that these media and many, many others have become detached from reality. Our language is changing, losing its meaning, its points of reference, being able to surf, chat, or interact without actual physical activity, words or visual reference is only the start. Our technology is altering the way we understand distance and location to a point where bringing us closer together can also mean that we won't know where we are.¹

¹ Moss, Luther. "the book you are reading doesn't exist." 606 Magazine. May 2004. .