By "the shrinking tunnel" do you mean the section where fewer & fewer words appear on each page (and the rest of page is blank)? If so, that's funny - that's o

By "the shrinking tunnel" do you mean the section where fewer & fewer words appear on each page (and the rest of page is blank)? If so, that's funny - that's one of my favorite parts of the book, and something I refer to often when talking about the book. The reason I like it so much is that it's at a very tense/dangerous moment, and normally in those situations it's impossible to actually read the content in exactly the order written - instead, my eyes will saccade forward and give my little subconscious "hints" at how the tension is resolved. By placing only a few words per page (by the end, just one word per page), House of Leaves kept me in a state of fairly breathless anticipation for the whole time I was reading that part. Danielewski managed to get a film-like control over the pacing, which I thought was brilliant.