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ideas of

• forum again meh

• mapping

• wiki

• annotation

• digital humanities

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House of Leaves is a challenging novel. Its complex metatextuality seems to present multiple targets for scholarly critique and exegesis, just as its overwrought erudition anticipates and satirizes any attempt at analysis. Moreover, it is a novel informed and constituted by its network, both the pre-existing network of cultural, literary, and philosophical references that populate the text as well as the post-publication network of critical fandom that emerged around the official forum for the book. As Jessica Pressman has argued, House of Leaves is a networked novel, so this assignment invites you to participate in a unique experiment in re-networking House of Leaves, through a collaboration with students at four other institutions (Temple, Emory, George Mason and Converse). 

As a group, we will be reading throug

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    // left attacks right
		// this is from patrick's code
		// the 10 value below acts as the gas peddle
		var modifier = Math.floor((Math.random() * ((left.attack - right.defense) + 10))); 
		
		var rightDamage = modifier * left.lvl + 1;
		
		// right takes damage
		right.hp -= rightDamage;