eyeundersand parent
Yes, it's definitely something you want to experience in the physical form! It's hard to describe what reading it feels like towards the latter parts of the book- you feel like you're lost in the book like how the Navidson gets lost in the house.
See, I feel like that in Emacs sometimes, too. The debugger helps.
I keep track of my Emacs with a Tractive GPS collar, and I have an app on my phone that shows the trails and a heat map of everywhere he's been. And I debug him with Frontline, but that doesn't prevent him from coming in with slugs in his fur. (Emacs is my cat's name.)
Is he bigger on the inside? Does he represent a bet that didn’t pay off, on a future that will never, ever be allowed to come? Does he embody the charming but mistaken belief that creating tools to make people freer will begin a movement toward freedom?