So in chapter 4, Will and Karen first discover the 5 and a half minute hallway after coming back from attending a wedding in June, 1990.
Later in chapter 5, when Tom is about to head back to his place for work, it says that it’s once again June. Is the implication here that all that stuff with the realtor, the measurements that Will took initially, then with Tom, and later with Billy Reston, all of that took at least an entire year?
So from my understanding Zampano is going on a long rant about the significance of echoes in understanding the meaning behind the Navidson Record and at one point references the exact same quote once from Miguel Cervantes' "Don Quixote" and a second time from Jorge Luis Borge's "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote". meanwhile in footnote 50 Johnny is on the verge of a full on mental breakdown trying to figure out what the hell is supposed to be different between these 2 quotes.
Now based on my knowledge:
Miguel Cervantes "Don Quixote": A Satiracle parody of old chivalric tales of knighthood in which some old fogey spends days locked inside reading old tales of knights and princesses, deludes himself into thinking he's the legendary Don Quixote before being unleashed onto the spanish countryside and causing all kinds of shenanigans.
Jorge Luis Borges "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote": A short story written in the form of a fake literary critique in which the fictional author Pierre Menard is showered with praise for his rendition of Miguel Cervante's Don Quixote despite both texts being exactly the same and the only difference being the "vibes".
So the main reason why the 2 quotes are the exact same is because the entire joke is that both of the texts being referenced are quite literally word for word the exact same story and this entire footnote is essentially the equivalent of an academic shitpost.
So now, you have Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of a leaves" (a parody of academic literature) referencing Jorge Luis Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"(a parody of literary critique) which is in turn referencing Miguel Cervantes "Don Quixote" (a parody of old chivalric tales of knighthood) essentially making this entire thing a parody-of-a-parody-of-another-parody. But also, you have poor Johnny boy over here literally about to vomit out black bile because he didn't get the joke and is now losing his mind trying to figure out what Zampano meant by this.
Hilarious