Apr 4
the house is Yggdrasil, right. It’s mentioned obliquely in a few pages and then stated explicitly on the very, very last. In the final exploration you get the sense that Navidson is being funneled towards something, the trunk of a great tree which at first is the branches flowing back towards the center but then becomes an ascent, purgatorial like the well, until he reaches some unknown center in a sort of apotheosis or distillation. Odin losing an eye, exchanged for the knowledge of the world. Obviously a very easy conclusion to draw from a very obtuse book but hey, it’s only been like fifteen hours since I finished it.
