sunset, truant
Feb. 28th, 2026 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
comix64i went on a walk at sunset. it was beautiful. i had this sort of thought-thing where as i was walking i framed my own thoughts about the thing as if they were subtitles on an auteur's youtube video, the visual from my eye, the ambient from my ear, the thought from my mind. when i go on walks alone i tend this sort of idea where i am Not an Ant, and when i speak to people or spend even a little time on other's thoughts i Am an Ant. its sort of hard to describe. a lot of things were hard to describe. before the framing as an auteur, i had the framing of an author, and i tried to transcribe things to words. there were two sounds i thought were from cars that seemed to be speaking to each other from across the neighborhood. one went "eEEEEEEou" and one went "eYuourE". i took some pictures, one of a headlight with a tree and one of a lonesome little bench. i did one of the sunset too, but it didnt look too good, so here's a flower i took earlier today instead. i hope to share more photos of mine in coming posts1.
i like novels. i like encyclopedic novels. the thing about House of Leaves is that it makes a fictional film and then compares it to everything. mythology, gender roles, science, ritual, interpersonal connection. it frames this through a man whom is heavily implied to be mentally ill, and my theory is that neither the film nor the huge comparison essay are real in the canon of the story. Truant deludes himself into both the film and Zampanò's draft about the film. maybe even the whalestoe letters are made up by him. he writes elaborate fiction and has a partition in his mind such that he believes he did not write it and attempts to decode what he himself encoded.
1 while editing this post to include photos, i discovered, because Rei has cellular service, my photos now have exact coordinates on them! such glee! i installed exiftool and jexiftoolgui on my computer, and set it up such that i can simply pick a directory with photos, type "-gps:all= image.jpg" into the ExifTool Command section, and quickly strip all my photos of their coordinate tags, which i then used on the photos, as well as on the photos from january 24th. such bullshit! why would i ever be like "I can't remember where I took this photo. Let me transfer it to a computer and check its metadata"?? thats only usable if youre a stalker! thats some freaky shit!!
i like novels. i like encyclopedic novels. the thing about House of Leaves is that it makes a fictional film and then compares it to everything. mythology, gender roles, science, ritual, interpersonal connection. it frames this through a man whom is heavily implied to be mentally ill, and my theory is that neither the film nor the huge comparison essay are real in the canon of the story. Truant deludes himself into both the film and Zampanò's draft about the film. maybe even the whalestoe letters are made up by him. he writes elaborate fiction and has a partition in his mind such that he believes he did not write it and attempts to decode what he himself encoded.
1 while editing this post to include photos, i discovered, because Rei has cellular service, my photos now have exact coordinates on them! such glee! i installed exiftool and jexiftoolgui on my computer, and set it up such that i can simply pick a directory with photos, type "-gps:all= image.jpg" into the ExifTool Command section, and quickly strip all my photos of their coordinate tags, which i then used on the photos, as well as on the photos from january 24th. such bullshit! why would i ever be like "I can't remember where I took this photo. Let me transfer it to a computer and check its metadata"?? thats only usable if youre a stalker! thats some freaky shit!!
