A Million Blue Pages.net is a platform conceived and designed to support a collaborative teaching project around the book, House of Leaves . Taking inspiration from Zak Smith's illustrations for each page of Gravity's Rainbow , and bearing in mind the distinctively networked textuality of House of Leaves , this website invites users to contribute images, video, audio, text -- anything that can be shared on the web -- to add to our growing collection of nodes .

...Your phrases and their respondent images still keep within me. The cold water lapping at your ankles, threatening to pull you down into “Freezing meadows stretched to the horizon like a million blue pages”...

House of Leaves , Appendix IIE, p. 608

This site uses Google Apps Scripting for its backend and jQuery for the interface. Sheetrock and Handlebars connect the dots. Hosting provided by the University of Mary Washington. Thanks to Brian Croxall for the idea and Mark Sample for the domain name suggestion.

This website is a work in progress. Report bugs to Zach Whalen.