It took some careful observation to realize that no, I'm not crazy, and yes, your icon was in fact blinking at me.
In other news -- that's an interesting take. I always thought something similar, but more along the lines of the idea that the house merely reflects the internal state of whomever is inside. The book itself suggests as much, if I remember correctly. When Holloway really starts to lose it, for example, the house becomes monstrous, and it's really the only time we encounter the house being actively malicious.
It does give tremendous opportunities to those within, because essentially they're forced to deal with themselves, in a way that only the house can accomplish: by making a completely internal struggle become a very real and external one. Holloway can't face it, so he becomes homicidal. Both Karen and Navidson force themselves to face it, and they overcome their deepest insecurities and become much, much happier people.
It's like the world's most impossible Rorschach test.
"the house, the halls, and the rooms all become the self-collapsing, expanding, tilting, closing, but always in perfect relation to the mental state of the individual."202
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In other news -- that's an interesting take. I always thought something similar, but more along the lines of the idea that the house merely reflects the internal state of whomever is inside. The book itself suggests as much, if I remember correctly. When Holloway really starts to lose it, for example, the house becomes monstrous, and it's really the only time we encounter the house being actively malicious.
It does give tremendous opportunities to those within, because essentially they're forced to deal with themselves, in a way that only the house can accomplish: by making a completely internal struggle become a very real and external one. Holloway can't face it, so he becomes homicidal. Both Karen and Navidson force themselves to face it, and they overcome their deepest insecurities and become much, much happier people.
It's like the world's most impossible Rorschach test.
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Read Sphere by Michael Crichton.
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"the house, the halls, and the rooms all become the self-collapsing, expanding, tilting, closing, but always in perfect relation to the mental state of the individual."202
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