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House of Leaves

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Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author born on March 5, 1966. He is known for his experimental narrative techniques and visual style in literature, with notable works including 'The Room' and 'The Time Traveler's Wife'. more

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“They’re accustomed to seeing the future, Paul thought. In this place and time they’re blind…even as I am. And he sampled the time-winds, sensing the turmoil, the storm nexus that now focused on this moment place. Even the faint gaps were closed now. Here was the unborn jihad, he knew. Here was the race consciousness that he had known once as his own terrible purpose. Here was reason enough for a Kwisatz Haderach or a Lisan al-Gaib or even the halting schemes of the Bene Gesserit. The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive. All humans were alive as an unconscious single organism in this moment, experiencing a kind of sexual heat that could override any barrier.”

“I earn my living teaching about the human condition, a composite of violence, vengeance, and theft, ingenuity, too, and forms of love unique to men and women, the only species that knows, consciously, what others of its kind thought and did thousands of years before— stories, myths, histories, philosophies, all mirrors and constellations showing humanity to itself, none of which will ensure our survival.”

“Doctors, professors, and scientists were unknowingly assimilating incorrect or half-true information in order to regurgitate it to the populace. Because the populace held these professions in the highest regard, their disseminated information was believed as if it was coming out of the mouth of gods.”

“Racism is no longer tolerated as normal, Islamophobia is no longer tolerated as normal, Homophobia is no longer tolerated as normal, Chauvinism is no longer tolerated as normal, Colonialism is no longer tolerated as normal - believe you me, this is the most human humanity have ever been in our 200,000 years long history.”