Breaking Rules (like not posting on time...not intentional, promise!)

First of all, let me just say that I am TOTALLY into Galerie. I know I make comparisons to this all the time, but it really reminded me of House of Leaves, except it was much more... light, I guess. Sort of how HoL  is supposed to be this clusterfuck of mind-bending stuff with all this weird experimental writing, but Galerie in itself is a whole different kind of "mind-bending" for me. It's challenging in that it requires that you 'choose your own adventure' but that you also 'break the rules'. But if the one "rule" of Galerie is to 'break the rules,' who's to say we can't just read on straight ahead and never stray from that path?

Okay, I know that's not the point, but I just had fun trying to figure that out. Anyway, Galerie is so mesmerizing because it essentially feels endless. If you ever read something collage-y like House of Leaves, you're guaranteed an ending. But with Galerie, it doesn't seem like your 'adventures' through the text could ever even be the same, unless you'd written down your paths and followed them to see & remember where you'd been and what the book had to tell you. I wish I had written down my path, because after I'd read so many I made myself stop because I want to begin completely over for Thursday's reading.

This book is so compelling and all of the different techniques used to make it are impressive & inspiring. Lots of good ideas for works like this that we could do...