5/25/2023 0 Comments Danielewski mark![]() ![]() While travelling, Johnny also visits The Whalestoe Institute, the psychiatric hospital where his mother lived, prior to her suicide. ![]() While travelling, he encounters a band who are in possession of the manuscript he has been working on they report that the manuscript has been distributed. Eventually, Johnny decides to put the manuscript in storage and goes on a quest to Virginia, to find the house on Ash Tree Lane recorded in the documentary The Navidson Record. Johnny’s physical health deteriorates, and he leaves his apartment less and less, finally getting fired from the tattoo shop. ![]() Johnny sometimes sees or experiences “the beast”-a type of animal or being with a threatening, destructive presence. He experiences a series of episodes in which he breaks with reality he thinks events occur then immediately finds out they did not occur, so much so that the reader is often unsure of what is happening in the reality of the novel. He starts compiling a series of footnotes to Zampanò’s text, in which the actions of his own life unfold. Johnny takes the manuscript home and begins reading it, becoming more and more obsessed with it as time goes on. ![]() He and his friend, Lude, discover The Navidson Record in the room of a recently-deceased man named Zampanò. Johnny Truant is a tattoo shop employee living in Hollywood who frequently drinks, uses drugs, and has sex with women. ![]()
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