What is remarkable is how often, as we learn in extremely engaging and well written footnotes and endnotes, such flights of fancy have a basis in reality.
Myers's prodigious research on the history of "Jabberwocky" led him to Lewis Carroll's diaries, where, as he explains in an endnote, he discovered the word "ollamalitzli," written in the margin.
As sources for this, the endnote cites two newspaper clippings, a letter not written by Roosevelt, and the page from Morris's previous Roosevelt volume in which T.R. learns that McKinley has been shot.
Those pictures, contained within cleanly and fluidly written narratives that are marred by relatively few endnotes, help to make the book appealing to and approachable by both scholars and a curious public.
(Endnotes provided by the collection's gifted translator, Linda Coverdale, offer informative points of reference, and the pieces themselves, all of which were written on request, offer a window into Echenoz's unique way of looking at the world).
In an endnote a decade later, Gibson wrote, "I wish this were a novel, somehow".
"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".
In a paper that appeared the following May, also in Science, Roger Kornberg, who would win the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his studies on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription," proposed an alternative model of the ν body, writing in the endnote citing the Olinses' Science paper that "similar micrographs have been obtained by Dr. J. T. Finch of this laboratory".
If you ever write a review article, EndNote might explode. 5. Grammar textbooks contain elaborate rules about when to use numerals and when to write out numbers.
And, given the rich trove of reporting on Sony by journalists and Mr. Nathan's contention that he is writing "history," the lack of endnotes or a bibliography is unforgivable.
