House of Leaves (68 page)

—
December
25,
1996

EXHIBITS

Though never completed, Zampanô left the following instructions for a series of plates he planned to include at the end of
The Navidson Record
.
—
JT.

ONE

Instructions:

§
Provide pictorial examples of architecture ranging from early Egyptian, Mycenaean, Greek, and Roman to Gothic, early Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical,
and
the present.

§
Emphasize floor plans, doorways, pecliments, gables, columns, capitals, entablatures,
and
windows.

§
Also create a timeline indicating general dates of origin for developing styles.

§
For references see bibliography in Chapter IX.

TWO

Instructions:

§
Provide examples of hand shadows ranging from crabs, snails, rabbits, and turtles to dragons, panthers, tigers, and kangaroos. Also include hippos, frogs, elephants, birds of paradise, dogs, cockatoos, and dolphins.

§
Supply diagrams detailing light and display requirements.

§
See Phila H. Webb and Jane Corby’s
The Little Book of Hand Shadows
(Philadelphia: Running Press, 1990) as well as Sati Achath and Bala Chandran’s
Fun With Hand Shadows: Step-By-Step Instructions for More Than 70 Shadows—From Cud-Chewing Cows and Dancing Elephants to Margaret Thatcher and Michael Jackson
(NTC/Contemporary Publishing, 1996).

THREE

Instructions:

§
Illustrate date determination techniques utilizing potassium-40/argon- 40, rubidium-87/strontium-87, and samarium- 147/neodymium- 143.

§
Provide table for uranium-235 and -238 found in lead isotopes.

§
Include all data in Zero Folder. [428—Missing.
—
Ed.]

FOUR

Instructions:

§
Reproduce all facsimiles of
The
Reston Interview
and
The Last Interview
. [429—Missing.
—
Ed.]

FIVE

Instructions:

§
Duplicate page 2-33 in Air Force Manual
64-5
(15 August 1969) [
430—See
Appendix IT-C.
—
Ed.]

SIX

Instructions:

§ Reproduce Karen’s completed Sheehan Clinician Rated Anxiety Scale as well as her Marks and Mathews Phobia Scale. [
431—See
Appendix IT-C.
—
Ed.]

§ Highlight the following information: Project ID: 87852341. Date of Birth: July 24th Patient ID: 002700

§ For interpretation and examples see Isaac M. Marks’
Living with Fear
(McGraw-Hill, 1978); Isaac M. Marks’
Fears, Phobias, and Rituals: Panic, Anxiety, and Their Disorders
(Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1987) and
The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties
by Ronald M. Doctor, Ada P. Kahn, Ronald D. Doctor and Isaac M.
Marks (New York: Facts on File, 1989).

Appendix

Zampanô
produced a great deal of material outside of
The Navidson Record
.
Here’s a selection of journal entries, poems and even a letter to the editor, all of which I think sheds a little more light on his work as well as his personality.
—
JT.

A.

Outlines & Chapter Titles

The Navidson Record

Intro

1/4”

Tom

The Five and a Half Minute Hallway

Exploration A (Navidson’s Visit)

Exploration #1
(Across the Anteroom)

Exploration #2
(To the Great Hall)

Exploration #3
(Seven hours down the Spiral Staircase)

Exploration #4

SOS

Into The Maze

Rescue

(Tom’s Story)

The Falling Quarter

The Holloway Tape

Evacuation

“What Some Have Thought” [*—Not included in final release.]

“A Brief History Of How [sic] I Love”

The Reston Interview

The Last Interview

Exploration #5

The End

Release History

1990
—
“The Five and a Half Minute Hallway” (VHS Short)

1991
—
“
Exploration #4
” (VHS Short)

1993
—
The Navidson Record

Possible Chapter Titles

Chapter I … … … . The Film

Chapter II … … … . 1/4”

Chapter III … … … . Outpost

Chapter IV … … … . Navidson

Chapter V … … … . Echo

Chapter VI … … … . Animals

Chapter VII … … … . Holloway

Chapter VII … … … . SOS

Chapter IX … … … . The Labyrinth

Chapter X … … … . The Rescue (Part One)

Chapter XI … … … . Tom’s Story

Chapter XII … … … . The Rescue (Part Two)

Chapter XIII … … … .
The Minotaur

Chapter XIV … … … . Infidelity

Chapter XV … … … . Karen

Chapter XVI … … … . Science

Chapter XVII … … … . Reasons

Chapter XVIII … … … . Ftaires! or De la Waif or The History of Ash Tree Lane

Chapter XIX … … … . Delial

Chapter XX … … … . The Return

Chapter XXI … … … . Nightmares

Chapter XXII … … … . Faith

Chapter XXIII … … … . Passion

B.

Bits

[
Original
]

[432—Presumably “Original” indicates an entry written in
Zampanô
’s own hand, while “A” “B” “C” etc., etc. indicate entries written by someone else.
—
Ed.]

January 18,
1955

I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.

[
Original
]

April 17,
1955

Then are inhabited by history?

[
Original
]

September 4,
1955

Light dawns and marble heads. What the hell does this mean?

[
Original
]

June 3, 1959

This terror that hunts.

[
Typed
]

August 29, 1960

Captain Kittinger, you brought us an early fall this year.

[
Typed
]

October 31, 1968

I have no words. The finest cenotaph.

[
Typed
]

November 1, 1968

(
o
) (
n
)

A sun to read the dark.

[
Typed
]

November 2, 1968

Tirer comme des lapins.
[433— “Shot like rabbits.”
—
Ed.]

[
Original
]

December 8, 1968

God grant me distraction.

[
B
]

March 14, 1969

Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.

[
C
]

September 10, 1970

Nothing to share with.

[
Typed
]

September 21, 1970

Perhaps in the margins of darkness, I could create a son who is not missing; who lives beyond even my own imagination and invention; whose lusts, stupidities, and strengths carry him farther than even he or I can anticipate; who sees the world for what it is; and consequently bears the burden of everyone’s tomorrow with unprecedented wisdom and honor because he is one of the very few who has successfully interrogated his own nature. His shields are instantly available though seldom used. And those who value him shall prosper while those who would destroy him shall perish. He will fulfill a promise I made years ago but failed to keep.

[
Typed
]

December
15,
1974

As often as I have lingered on Hudson in his shallop, I have in the late hours turned my thoughts to Quesada and Molino’s journey across those shallow waters, wondering aloud what they said, what they thought, what gods came to keep them or leave them, and what in those dark waves they finally saw of themselves? Perhaps because history has little to do with those minutes, the scene survives only in verse:
The Song of Quesada and Molino
by [XXXX]. I include it here in its entirety.

[
D
]

April 29, 1975

Mother wants you to call home STOP It is 105 degrees and rising STOP White Christmas indeed!

Bada-Bing, Bada-Bang, Bada-Gone!

Bing! Bang! Booooom!