u/Big-Independence903

Me and my partner are in our early thirties and visiting the Norfolk broads over 4 days and nights on a boat holiday. It's our first time there, and effectively we want to visit beautiful pubs with great vibes (and food if possible), go on nice walks, drink good wine and just watch films on our boat and be in nature.

It would be great to know of any must-visit pubs or stops - we will be starting at Stalham! Any tips would be fantastic.

Never have I read a book so closely, and so electrified, only to finish it and have little to no idea what has happened, or how to respond to it, or . I keep thinking about Zampano's passages on 'echoes', as well as the crossed out [missing] nature of minotaur, as well as pages 425-489, which (in reading it) force you into a kind of labyrinth, where you have no idea if the book you are holding is up or down, forcing the reader into a literal sense of disorientation, much like how you would in that hou¢e. I keep thinking of the Youtube backrooms shorts (and the film) and how the ever-expanding rooms are a physical manifestation of the traumatic experiences that we divorce from our every day lives. There's also the fact that each 'key' character in HoL has their own "minotaur" dwelling at the heart of their trauma, and by extension, at the heart of the hou¢e. Johnny has Perafina, Navy has Delial, Zampano has...I need to go back, but I swear he refers to a woman with longing or regret.

I also believe that the baby in the Dr Nowell short story is Johnny re-writing his birth story.

All this to say, how the fuck does one move on from this book? An immediate re-read? I'm not sure my nerves can take it. Either way I think Danielewski is a genius. I will never forget how the last 2-weeks of reading this novel has felt.

EDIT: Just now reading up on the 'P wrote it' theory - haha I have no idea how to process that...