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To Torre, the health of Wells's back matters most.
Often "Homo Politicus" need do no more than play back matters of record.
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Still, the back matter is not simply a garnish.
The answer depends on why a book's back matter matters.
In this context, the removal of back matter makes some kind of sense.
Back matter cannot bolster every claim, but it builds authority by allowing for the possibility of imperfection.
Instead, back matter is starting to vanish from books, the one place where it's still very much needed.
Publishers' tendency to take back matter out of books is cheap and lazy, and it only makes for trouble.
This augmentative beauty is what's lost when back matter is banished to a third literary space like the Internet.
It would be an unfortunate practice for publishers to save on paper by routinely spinning off the back matter.
The underworld of notes, indexes, and appendices, which book publishers ineloquently call "back matter," lacks both a good story and the glamour of the main event.
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