Page 30 - The house is 32'10 exactly, the width of the house inside appears to exceed the width of the house as measured from the outside by 1/4
Pages 84-86 - Explorations 1-3
Page 99 - Contradiction? Base Camp or command post?
Page 107-108 - Johnny explains a tragedy of a truck swerving and hitting a bunch of people, but it turns out to not be real at all
Page 110-11 - Story of the Minotaur
Page 120 - Translations of House are in blue, "maison" and "haus"
Page 134-35 - Footnote order is reversed
Page 141 - Unintentionally predicted AI - "Picture that. In your dreams"
Page 151 - Typo in Zampano's writings + Johnny screams in his sleep
Page 165 - Critics believe that the house's mutations reflect the psychology of anyone who enters it
Page 249 - Zampano claims that the conflict between Tom and Will Navidson is similar to the biblical story of Esau and Jacob, though other academics dispute this
Page 252 - The footnotes are being added when not even mentioned in the normal text, and some are self-aware in being contradictory. Ex: The Genesis 27:24 quote is actually from Genesis 27:29
Page 260 - The end of Tom Navidsons transcript while waiting in the hallway/house, he seems to have gone insane, playing with shadow hand puppets like a child
Page 327 - There's a lot of brackets [ ] in certain paragraphs regarding Holloway, sometimes even in between the letters of just one word or entire words, possibly a redaction
Page 329 - Footnote 281 refers back to Chapter 5; footnote 67.
Page 337 - Holloway attempts suicide with a gun to escape the house, though the footnote theorizes that back in 320, Chad runs out of the house because got woken up by a bang gun shot sound, it likely could have been Holloway while he was trapped.
Page 346 - Tom, Navidsons twin brother manages to save Daisy but he himself is consumed by the house, first the walls close and he disappears in the darkness, footnotes reveal that only Billy Reston mentions these events (despite never seeing Tom's fate) because Navidson finds it to painful to mention in his interview.
Page 350 - Under the footnotes, the word "leaves" is used. "It's amazing how many people save at least, a few letters during their lifetime, leaves of a feeling, tucked away in a guitar case, a safety deposit box, on a hard drive, or even preserved in a pair of old boots no one will ever wear."
Page 350 - Hints of Karen's possible infidelity are hinted at the top footnote, referencing Chapter II, pages 10-11, in which Navidson opens a jewelry box and removes some of the hair from Karen's brush.
Page 351 - Footnote says that Johnny's relationship to his mother will be covered in greater deatil in Chapters XVII and XIX
Page 354-365 - Several artists, critics, filmmakers, authors, and philosophers talk to Karen about the house.
Main takeaways from this section.
1. - Many of the men and some of the women openly flirt with Karen despite her still being technically married to Navidson.
2. - Stanely Kubrick confirms what was stated earlier in the book that the parts of the film that Navidson worked on are of noticeably higher quality than the others (Navidson's brother Tom, who's not experienced in film/photography worked on the other parts of the film which were more shaky and lower quality overall).
3. - Some of the people interviewed exist in real life, while others are purely fictional characters.
Examples of real people - Stanley Kubrick (Filmmaker), Stephen King (Camile Paglia (Critic), Anne Rice (Novelist), Hunter S Thompson (Novelist), Jacques Derrida (Philosopher), Steve Wozniak (Inventor and Philantropist), Andrew Ross (Literature Professor and Princeton University), Harold Bloom (Critic), Walter Mosley (Novelist), Kiki Smith (Figurative Artist), Douglas Hofstadter (Cognitive Scientist), and David Copperfield (Magician).
Examples of made-up people - Leslie Stern (M.D. Psychiatrist), Byron Baleworth (British Playwright), Jennifer Antipala (Architect and Structural Engineer) and Poe t (21 years old).
Page 358 - Eric Kepland theorizes that the house could be an incarnation of Navidson's mother, representing her absense in his life.
Page 368 - Karen reveals that one of Navidson's notable pieces of his collection is Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photo of the vulture and Sudanese girl. Not only does this hint at Navidson's artist inspiration, since his signature style is photographing people war/conflict/famine/natural disaster situations. Navidson's style seemed to invovle him wanting to capture the small moments that people have during the most tragic situations and keeming them preserved, possibly reflecting that fact that there isn't much photos or videos of Navidson's childhood. Though more importantly, the back of his photo print has the words "Delial" penciled in. This is a phrase that Navidson had the tendency to use randomly, much to Karen's disdain.
Page 373 - For a few pages, there's several of these blocks of "XXXXXXXXX" and the reason is due to the fact that Johnny had accidentally left some bottle of German ink on some of Zampano's papers, which spilled over and whiped out almost 40 pages, the footnotes survived only because he hadn't incorporated them yet, they were written out separately ona series of green index cards held together by a yellow rubber band.
Page 375 - An editors note claims that the remainder of one of the footnote and 17 pages of text vanished from the manuscript that Johnny had supplied (2 pages are missing as well).
Page 386 - One scholar theorizes that the reason why Navidson chose to go back to the houseis show that he owns it instead of his wife Karen. This is questionable though considering the fact that Navidson could have just bought Karen's share of the home, invest in paper writing, lectures, and other acts of publicity in order to earn more money.
Page 392 - Navidson reveals the meaning of "Delial", it was a name that Navidson gave to a small Sudanese girl that Navidson photographed (which started his photography career) and died in his arms. The trauma of that event seems to go into his consciousness, as he says the name whenever he's upset, and none of his friends had ever figured out who "Delial" was until Karen showed that photograph in an interview and the back of the photograph had the word "Delial" written on it.
Page 407 - First it must be prefaced that many of the people who entered the house have experienced severe physical and mental issues, though an updated list has shown that ever since Navidson re-entered the house, many of the effects from these people such as Karen, Navidson, Chad, Daisy, or Reston have either been reduced or diminished completely (ex: Karen's bad cough went away, and Navidson's night terrors went away). However, it has been shown that the Navidson Record seems to also have adverse effects on people who haven't even entered the house. What this means is that even people who have simply researched the Navidson Record have reported significant changes in their life. Surprisingly, many of the effects for some of the people are actually positive changes like a decrease in anxiety. But many of the people have reported incredibly negative effects such as insomnia and obssiveness over the Navidson Record, three cases have resulted in suicide. This leads to the theory that Johnny Truants mental decline could be linked to his discovery of the Navidson Record.
Page 410 - 413 - Both the Navidson Record section and Johnny Truant section have this sporadic replacing "f" for "s" thing, which mystifies Johnny, but he still does it. Ex: "My Vifa was cancelled." The editor on page 413 calls out the sporadic letter replacement.
Page 414 - A footnote states that the exact location of the house has never been fully known, though some suspect it could be somewhere in the environs of Richmond, close to the University of Virginia, or near Colonial Williamsburg.
Page 421 - There's a "diagram" suggesting where Navidson was when he took the picture of Delial. The "diagram" has lots of brackes [ ] but an editors note theorizes that Zampano's blindness prevented him from providing an actual diagram of the Delial photograph.
Page 423 - This page is almost completely written in Braille, it's important to note that the bumps are written but there's no texture, meaning that an actual blind person could never be able to read this. The editors note translates what it says, however, the end of the text is [illegible.]
Page 424 - Navidson prepares himself to go back to the house and has lots of food, water, cameras, odometer and a trailer that's somehow able to fit inside the hallways.
Page 432-433 - Text is heavily jumbled and some of it is askew.
Page 440 - The text is incredibly strangely written, the text is diagonal, but it's also meant to be read from bottom to top.
Page 445 - The text is becoming incredibly cramped, likely to emphasize how the hallways are becoming more narrow. Navidson has abandoned his trailer, cameras, and most of his possesions aside from his water and a book.
Page 461-463 - The text is becoming unreadable due to it looking like this |XXXXXXX|
Page 465 - The text is arranged in a triangular arrow-like block to one side. It's revealed that the book that Navidson brought with him is called House of Leaves.
Page 479 - The entire page is a music note.
Page 484 - The entire page has stanzas like a poem.
Page 491 - October 25, 1998, Johnny reports that Lude is dead, he was beaten badly by the Gdansk Man, got addicted to drugs from being in the hospital, and then was killed in a motorcyle accident at a party.
Page 500 - Johnny visits Jamestown and a woman describes the 1622 Powahatan Indian Insurrection that left almost 400 dead, Johnny then reveals there was no woman.
Page 503 - June 21, 1998, it's Johnny's birthday.
Page 507 - 508 - September 2, 1998, Johnny goes to Seattle, meets up with an old friend, a doctor and his wife, who's a doctor as well. For the next several days, Johnny's condition heavily improves, he starts to eat more to reach a healthy weight, sleep improves, attends counseling sessions, gets medicated, and his overall mental state heavily improves.
Page 509 - Everything that Johnny mentioned about meeting the doctor friend was a lie. None of that ever happened. Most shockingly, Johnny thinks that Lude might be out of the hospital by now, despite him mentioning much earlier that Lude is dead.
Page 510 - October 25, 1998, (same date as when Johnny said Lude was dead before) Johnny says that Lude is dead followed by several "........................................", it's unknown as to why Johnny would announce again that Lude is dead, or if he was actually alive as previously mentioned but is actually dead now.
Page 512 - Johnny is at a bar waiting on the bus, he hears a band play, what immediately gets his attention is when he hears the lyrics, "I live at the end of a Five and Half Minute Highway." (It's no doubt a reference to the Five and a Half Minute Hallway short film mentioned in the Navidson Record.)
Page 514 - After handing the book back to the band, Johnny took a stretch out beneath "an old ash tree". It's worth mentioning the house is located on the street Ash Tree Lane.
Page 515 - Johnny mentions that the pages are messy with blood, he claims to hear people banging on the door, possibly the police or clerk, then Johnny say's that there's no one at his door.
Page 517 - Johnny talks about the memories of his mother, despite previously mentioning that his mother was sent to the Whalestoe mental institution for strangling him, here Johnny claims that she never tried to strangle him at all but that his father still called the police on her. Johnny says that the events of it occured for five and a half minutes, the exact same time as the Five and a half Minute Hallway short film.
Page 518 - Johnny talks about a story of a mother caring for a baby who's on the verge of dying after being born, he claims to remember it now but some text is crossed out "what I'm remembering now"
Page 521 - In Johnny's story, the baby dies, and that concludes the Johnny Truant sections.
Page 522- 523 - Once Karen moves back into the house, the childrens drawings dissapear, and then Navidson eventually appears, shivering and sick, but alive and is taken to the hospital. Due to the severe frostbite, Navidson loses his right hand, top portion of one ear, patches of skin on his face, and his left eye. His hip had been shattered and had to be replaced and the doctors said he would need a crutch for the rst of his life.
Page 524 - Karen is interviewed, somehow despite Navidson abandoning them, the film and tapes on his journey survived. The eerie part is that the house seemingly disolved.
Page 526-528 - Navidson marries Karen, (it's likely they co-habited but weren't officially married before), they and the kids move out of Virginia and to Vermont and stay there. Even though Karen developed malignant breast cancer, she recovered well from the chemotherapy. Daisy believes faeries inhabit the countryside, and Chad is obssesed with Lego. Overall, the family is happier living in Vermont and Navidson does his best not to close in his many images. This concludes the Navidson Record portion on December 25, 1996.
Page 529 - The Exhibits Section start
Page 538 - The Appendix Section start - this is a selection of journal entries, poems, and even a letter to the editor, courtesy of Johnny Truant.
Page 542 - In the Bits section, a footnote indicates taht some parts of the entry are written in Zampano's own hand, wile others migt be written by someone else.
Page 543 - Zampano intends to include the entirety of The Song of Quesada and Molino.
Page 545 - Zampno is mad that a girl won't throw out the garbage that smells like cat piss. Later on the same page, Zampano has an interesting sentence. "Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say."
Page 547 - Zampano mentions that the cats in his neighborhood have been dying, it's possible Zampano killed them.
Page 556 - The entirety of The Song of Quesada and Molino is mssing.
Page 584 -585 - The Obituary Section starts here - it's an obituary to Johnny Truant's father, he worked as a commercial pilot beofre, died in a car crash with a truck. He was born in Dorset, Vermont (the same state that Navidson eventually moved to.) Interestingly, Johnny requested to the editors that they omit his father's last name, which heavily implies that Johnny doesn't have the same last name as his father. Either Johnny is lying about the details of his father, intentionally lying about them having the same last name, or Johnny changed his last name to distance himself from his father. This concludes the end of the Appendices, Exhibits, and Obituary Section.
Page 586 - The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute Letters Section starts here - these are all from the perspective of Johnny Truants mother while she's institutionalized and Johnny is going back and forth being adopted by different families. The first note being from as early as August 30, 1982.
Page 589 - The mother claims that Johnny is 11 years old, the note was sent on April 17, 1983.
Page 592 - August 19th, 1983 her note claims wishes Johnny a happy birthday, despite the fact that Johnny himself claimed that it was on June 21.
Page 596 - Despite Johnny implying that Raymond (Johnny's adopted father) would beat him secretly and no one noticed. Johnny's mother says that Johnny was hospitalized by Raymond and she flew into a rage and tried to escape to try to kill Raymond.
Page 599 - "To endure over two moths without a word and then with the first words learn such terrible news tore me to pisces." There's an obvious typo at the end "pisces" instead of "pieces". An actual typo on the publishers or an in-universe typo?
Page 601 - "Remember, if this gives you any comfort, which I hope it does, anyone who tries to box and bury your soul(for as leaves are to limbs, so are your words to your soul) so will he be cast in my ire and so he will perish." This is one of the few pages that mention leaves.
Page 604 - August 23, 1985, Johnny's mother claims that two months ago, Johnny visited her. Another typo, "supernatural" is spelled "supranatural" instead. The old director at the institution has left, Johnny's mother says that the new one isn't very nice and claims that her convalescence requires more restrictions.
Page 607 - Johnny's mother says that he ran from her when meeting her months ago. "I'm sorry you saw what you saw in me. I'm sorry I made you run." Johnny hasn't responded to her letters.
Page 608 - Johnny finally responded to his mother, in which she says that Johnny fell off a fishing boat and almost drowned or froze to death. She then says, "I have to tell you that for a moment your words succeeded in keeping the boat afloat and your Haitian's lungs full of air." Google say's that ""Haitian lungs" refers to diseases affecting the lungs of people in Haiti or Haitian immigrants, including a high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), with Haiti having the highest rates in the Americas." Johnny's mother is likely refering to this as there's been no indication and Johnny and his family are Haitian.
Page 609-610 - September 30th, 1985, Johnny's mother says that the New Director insists on reading her mail and censoring her letters. She's getting increasingly suspicious of the Whalestoe staff, this letter was supposedly sent beyond the Whalestoe grounds, she got an attendant to mail this. She asks Johnny to place a check mark in the lower right hand corner, it's worth pointing out that same pages in either the Navidson Record of Johnny Truant sections have that check mark. In the next letter, Johnny adds the check mark and it makes her mother very happy. She intends to escape the institution.
Page 611 - The New Director gives Johnny's mother new medication and finds out about the letters.
Page 615 - Johnny's mother is refusing the new medicine by crushing it up and throwing it out when no one is looking, she also found a new person to send out the letters, she thinks that the New Director has destroyed all the letters she wrote to Johnny.
Page 616 -617 - Johnny's mother can't remember that her son visited him back in April, she also believes that the New Director may have just have hired a professional actor to pretend to be her for the visit.
Page 623 - Johnny's mother usually ends her letters with the date and "mom." However, at this point, she ends it with a "P." She believes her hands resemble some ancient tree. Some of the text is askew.
Page 627 - Johnny's mother writes in several texts asking her son for forgiveness.
Page 629-630 - Johnny's mother admits and goes into detail that she strangled her son as a child, her husband intervened and saved him.
Page 631 - April 12, 1988 (written askew at the top right of the page), Johnny's mother says that the papers all say that "'JOHNNY IS TRUANT'" and that "And his mother's reportedly ruined." This is significant since Johnny's last name is Truant. It's also similar to the act/crime of truancy, involves any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. Given that Johnny was known to get into lots of fights during his school days, maybe this is why he may have given himself that last name, either that or to separate himself from his father.
Page 635 - Johnny's mother says that the doctor has informed her that Johnny has visted her several times but that she was unresponsive all those times. Also, she claims that she found out that the New Director is just the Old Director. Johnny's mother has been given new medicine.
Page 638 - Johnny's mother is amused by her sons adventures in Europe. It's worth noting that Johnny has traveled Europe with just a backback, Pelican pen, and a few hundred dollars. In the previous sections, there was a series of poems called "The Pelican Poems." Neither Zampano or Johnny wrote these, so it's either a coincidence or a reference.
Page 639 - January 12, 1989, A letter written to Johnny from The Director about her mother, informing him that her condition is on the decline and may die. Also the Director says he's planning on quitting.
Page 643-644 - May 5, 1989, a letter to Johnny from the New Director proclaims that his mother is dead, died from the self-inflicted asphyxiation achieved with ben linen hung from a closet hook. Her name was Pelafine Heather Lievre, she was 59 years old. This confirms that "Truant" was never actually Johnny's last name, but actually "Lievre." "This receipt indicates that on September 8, 1989, the following article previously owned by Ms. Pelafina Heather Leivre was claimed by her son John ______: one jewerly." This concludes the Three Attic Whalestoe Institute Letters Section; aside from the Various Quotes Section — which is only about 10 pages of random quotes — this marks the end of House of Leaves (not counting the Whalestoe Letters book).