We start diving into the labyrinth from page 41 following the theme of echoes. Looking up footnote 46 yeilds a more or less of a dead end and a fictional book. However we find more (or less; depending on how you see it) luck with finding information on “Adonta ta mele”, a poem (from what I could understand) about loss of self, depicted in a fairly unsettling manner. Furthermore, in “Adonta ta mele” we see echoes with alterered wording, something that we also experience in HOL.

You’ve been stripped of everything

…Tripped of everything

….Ripped of everything.

This idea of giving new meaning to an echo is further explained within House of Leaf as following:

It (The echo) possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story.

Another form of echo in HOL is that we experience a recurring story. Story of how the HOL affects Zampano and Johnny, driving them both away from sanity.