He explained that endnotes "allow... me to make the primary-text an easier read while at once 1) allowing a discursive, authorial intrusive style w/o Finneganizing the story, 2) mimic the information-flood and data-triage I expect'd be an even bigger part of US life 15 years hence.
To sign the petition in support of her campaign, go to savethearctic.org/emma This article was edited on 15 September 2014, to remove the photo-shoot clothing credits in the endnote that jarred unnecessarily with the content.
This article was amended on 26 July 2012 because it originally suggested the area south of the Olympic park would be "less than 30 minutes from Heathrow" when connected to the under-construction Crossrail line, and because the endnote suggested that What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? was available on DVD now.
"Many of the points made in this book are probably wrong," he writes, with an endnote that leads to the line "I don't know which ones".
First, in 1952, Godard argued in favor of editing, in an article, "Defense and Illustration of Classical Construction," that featured an endnote explaining that it was aimed "against the Editors".
When he gets to Matilda and her casket of diamonds, he says in a faraway endnote that some scholars have doubted this tale, but in his main text he narrates it enthusiastically.
For example, after establishing early on that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was a prominent anti-Communist liberal, he mentions a McCarthy attack on him and tells us in an endnote that "Schlesinger's family (particularly his distinguished father) was heavily involved in various fellow-traveling activities".
Most are demoted to hyperlinked endnotes or, worst of all, unlinked endnotes that require scrolling through the e-reader to access.
She atones for these minor lapses and her numbing perkiness with long endnotes that reveal her careful research and put satisfying meat on the story's bare bones.
Its text is six hundred and fifty pages long, with another hundred and fifteen pages of endnotes that can be read straight through like a cubistic condensation of the book.
