Mr. Lally read next, from a work-in-progress he called "Poor Moth Boy on the Moon," about growing up Irish Catholic in South Orange, N.J. "I noticed I'm sort of a footnote all over the place," he said.
Consider a writer like the nineteenth-century clergyman John Hodgson, whose multipart "A History of Northumberland" included a footnote running well over a hundred pages.
Meanwhile, mainstream media and entertainment treats HIV as either a historical footnote or glosses over the subject entirely – a fact proven once again by the recent Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which arguably neuters his radical legacy by creating a pleasant, 'safe' narrative that won't piss off Middle England – or, of course, hinder its box-office numbers.
Although it now seems like a mere footnote given the furore over Lizzie Armitstead, the damaging tension over Cummings's selection was hardly the ideal preparation and further reflected the wobbliness within British Cycling following the departure of their head coach, Shane Sutton, in late April.
Don't you think their smartest people are poring over that footnote disclosure right now?
For the better part of the past two years, Catholics around the world have been fighting over a footnote.
The head of the N.F.L. players union, DeMaurice Smith, did interrupt the Ray train to point out how little faith the league's players have in their team doctors, a disturbing footnote to the debate over player safety.
I can only write this now because suddenly, last Friday morning, after 19 months under arrest and on conditional bail, the CPS announced that there was no evidence to charge me after all, and the investigation was over [see footnote].
It is a perverse footnote to the scandal over skinny models that the smallest of changes in a magazine or runway show — the arrival of Lara Stone, a model with recognizable breasts, for example — can be viewed as emblematic of a new moral standard worthy of applause.
Joe Fausti is a footnote in the perpetual debate over national health insurance.
