Carly Cooper

Carly Cooper
House of Leave
Chapters V-VII

I am realizing now how interesting it is the way that this book is written. At first the footnotes seemed very detached from the story of the Navidson Record but now I realize they are placed in the middle of the story where Johnny Truant has some sort of reaction. Though once he has reacted he usually goes on a new tangents about something with minimal relationship to the story. It is as if through Navidson’s story we learn who Johnny Truant is and how he is affected by the story.
I’m wondering why Navidson’s story is often interrupted by frequent lessons about physics (echoes) and life within science (animals), from my perspective it would have been perfectly acceptable to explain the largeness and emptiness of the “great hall” and other areas of the space but just saying that it had echoes and it was cold and very large. Why is it that we must learn the very source of echoes in general?
Also the way Truant writes is awful, it is difficult to even follow what he is saying because the writing is so bad. I am wondering if maybe the author believes that writing with page long run-on sentences and bad spelling gives some Truant some sort of character trait or personality trait.