Seems to me that the right way to read House of Leaves by Marl Z. Danielewski is to dedicate a String Theory wall or two for all the references. Anything less and you are not getting the full experience. I hope I am wrong because I cannot be bothered.

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This guy makes short story animations about his childhood. They are rather good. https://youtube.com/@Siiberek

Because of my fears—my fears of being “outed” as a nerdy heterosexual male, and therefore as a potential creep or sex criminal—I had constant suicidal thoughts. As Bertrand Russell wrote of his own adolescence: “I was put off from suicide only by the desire to learn more mathematics.” At one point, I actually begged a psychiatrist to prescribe drugs that would chemically castrate me (I had researched which ones), because a life of mathematical asceticism was the only future that I could imagine for myself.