how to talk about this with everything being a spoiler 
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 a documentary film about a house that is marginally larger inside than outside, with an occasional door leading to ever changing, never ending, haunted? corridor / stairs / maze, as the film maker tries to reconnect with his wife while constantly torn by his desire to explore and know - Navidson 
 a blind man's obsessional analysis of this film, with extensive references to other studies and articles on the subject - Zampano 
 a drug-addicted tattoo artist who discovers Zampano's trunk of notes after his mysterious death and becomes more paranoid and disjointed as he progresses through them, often adding his analysis and his own biographical details, all with the proviso that everything may be false -Johnny Truant 
 add occasional notes by a final editor 
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 heavily annotated with foot notes, some with Johnny's thoughts that run to pages or in parallel with the main text 
 at times, particular chapter IX, the text morphs to a disjointed labyrinth, mirroring the plot 
 the windows of text, 
 the craze of footnotes, some running across pages or nested within other footnotes, 
 the vertical and mirror text, 
 the lists of buildings running along one side, with designer and architects running in reverse and upside down on the other side... 
 includes appendices of supporting material 
 extraordinary book 
 some parallels with Infinite JestInfinite Jest 
 - the annotations, the digressions into technical details (arms, photography, chemical names for drugs, architecture), the centrality of a fabled film 
 and he does riff on the head in microwave/death by microwave theme. 
 ultimately was it all Johnny's deteriorating mental condition, dealing with death of father, committal of mother and abuse in foster care? - that five and a half minute corridor as his mother leaves... 
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