Mark Z. Danielewski Quote
And so now, in the shadow of unspoken events, I watch Zampanò's courtyard darken.Everything whimsical has left.I try to study the light-going carefully. From my room. In the glass of memory. In the moonstream of my imagination. The weeds, the windows, every bench.But the old man is not there, and the cats are all gone.Something else has taken their place. Something I am unable to see. Waiting.I'm afraid.It is hungry. It is immortal.Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
Mark Z. Danielewski
And so now, in the shadow of unspoken events, I watch Zampanò's courtyard darken.Everything whimsical has left.I try to study the light-going carefully. From my room. In the glass of memory. In the moonstream of my imagination. The weeds, the windows, every bench.But the old man is not there, and the cats are all gone.Something else has taken their place. Something I am unable to see. Waiting.I'm afraid.It is hungry. It is immortal.Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
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About Mark Z. Danielewski
Danielewski began work on a 27-volume series, The Familiar, although he completed only five volumes before halting the project in 2017.
Danielewski's work is characterized by an intricate, multi-layered typographical variation, or page layout, which he refers to as "signiconic". Sometimes known as visual writing, the typographical variation corresponds directly, at any given narratological point in time, to the physical space of the events in the fictional world as well as the physical space of the page and the reader. Early on, critics characterized his writing as being ergodic literature, and Danielewski has described his style as:Signiconic = sign + icon. Rather than engage those textual faculties of the mind remediating the pictorial or those visual faculties remediating language, the signiconic simultaneously engages both in order to lessen the significance of both and therefore achieve a third perception no longer dependent on sign and image for remediating a world in which the mind plays no part."