Danielewski.js
¶ by Rob FrieselInspired by @fat’s @angustweets’ 1 “If Hemingway wrote JavaScript”: if Mark Z. Danielewski (author of House of Leaves) wrote JavaScript:
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| // The narrator leaks globals but we cannot know if he intends this; we are | |
| // forced to trust him. There is no going back. | |
| stairs = | |
| this['stairs'] || | |
| {}; | |
| stairs['0'] = [], | |
| stairs['1'] = [ | |
| 0 | |
| ], | |
| stairs['2'] = [ 0, 1 | |
| ],stairs['3']=stairs['2'].concat([1]); | |
| function theSequence (depth) | |
| { | |
| var zero0e = 'House', | |
| X = | |
| zero0e.toLowerCase().length * 2, | |
| I =// The narrator's methods obfuscate his intent. | |
| (function(i){ | |
| return Math.round( | |
| i[00] | |
| .charCodeAt(0) / 13) - (X/2); | |
| }(zero0e)); | |
| // | |
| // | |
| // | |
| // | |
| // | |
| // | |
| // | |
| // | |
| // parseInt(1010, 2) / parseInt(0x0e, 16) | |
| /* The narrator leaves cryptic messages; we fear their erasure will only | |
| complicate advancements of our discoveries. */ | |
| return hallway(depth) | |
| function hallway(echo){ | |
| echo = Math.abs( echo ); | |
| return !!echo && echo in stairs ? | |
| stairs[echo] : | |
| (labyrinth(echo), | |
| hallway(echo)) | |
| } | |
| function labyrinth(){ | |
| var no_ = parseInt(arguments[0x01], X) || I; | |
| return stairs[parseInt(arguments[0x00], X)] || | |
| (Minotaur(no_), | |
| labyrinth(parseInt(arguments[0x00], X), ++no_)) | |
| function Minotaur(o){ | |
| 'use strict'; | |
| ;; | |
| if (!!!stairs[o]) { | |
| var maw = | |
| [].concat(stairs[o - I]); | |
| maw.push(maw[o - 3] + maw[o - 2]); | |
| stairs[o] = maw; | |
| // Lude's dead. | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
by I don’t think I want him on my team.
Update: (10/3/2012) Turns out that Mr. Croll has made the library available in Github. And Danielewski has been canonized. 2
- An honest mistake: Angus Croll wrote the post, but it appeared on @fat’s blog. And I guess I didn’t read the byline closely enough. Sorry about that.[
] - Following a correction, pursuant to how the Fibonacci sequence actually “works”.[]
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