?" Thurber even supplied some matching explanatory footnotes, such as "Probably Harry Boynton or his brother Norton".
Trust the reader (you don't need footnotes such as "the poet I refer to here is John Clare" or "Aung San Suu Kyi is currently held under house arrest in Burma"), but don't trust them too much: don't pick for your epigraph a massive chunk of Heidegger in the original German.
In December 1956 the novel was published in paperback in the US under the title Too Hot to Handle by Permabooks: the edition had been re-written to Americanise the British idioms used and Fleming provided a number of explanatory footnotes, such as the value of English currency against the dollar.
A footnote, in such circumstances, is just not good enough.
Wallace, the maximalist author of "Infinite Jest" and lover of the extended footnote, was such a fusser that when it came to the mechanics of editing, a suggestion to add or delete a comma could turn into a debate over the history of punctuation itself.
The novel is one long marathon meet-and-greet session, with some of the more unmanageable stuff spilling over into footnotes on such important matters as the town's consumption of Spam or the Woolly Hats for Seaman Scheme.
Its uncertain readings cause the scribe to offer footnotes to such perplexing references as "the Ministry of Rupture and Inflammation" ("Could this be the Ministry of Culture and Information?") and to such obvious errors as occur in the well-known song lyric that details how the nation's leader moves from house to house and "fucks us into bed".
The concept of metric specialization [24] has, however, been created specifically to account for the "transition point" (see footnote 3) of such a transition.
But such footnotes do not add up to verisimilitude.
She digresses only a little, mostly because gut-busting footnotes have become such an irresistible part of her style.
The text is scattered with such footnotes – sometimes wry, sometimes a bit Eeyorish, sometimes affectionate, sometimes a shade passive aggressive.
