Characterized by its publicist as "a perfect satirical break for this tense news cycle," the conceit of the book — arranging the most incoherent statements of the President into the form of free verse, and footnoting them with earnest scholarly remarks — is simple.
The more carefully you look at the footnotes, comparing them to the passages in the river, the less matched they seem.
If you choose to use footnotes, place them at the bottom of a page that has superscripts.
A previous release of "Infinite Jest" for e-readers solved the footnote challenge by embedding them as hyperlinks, but that option is not available on an audio recording.
SharedBook will collect footnotes and incorporate them with the three chapters into a PDF that readers can buy for $2.95.
Mr Lomborg diligently piles on the footnotes (2,930 of them) so there is no dispute about where his numbers have come from.
DAVID C. GARRON Chicago In the article transcribing his conversation with President Obama, David Leonhardt wisely included nine footnotes, some of them quite extensive.
The novel does likewise with its own fictionality: defined as a heap of "selected papers", initially gathered by one of the main characters, it has hundreds of footnotes, some of them genuine.
The best modern films about historical subjects, authentic or fictitious — whether Richard Linklater's "Bernie, Martin Scorsesee's "Hugo, Wes Andersonn's "Moonrise Kingdom," or, for that matter, Abbas Kiarostami's "Close-Up" or Jia Zhangke's "24 City" — have their footnotes built into them.
After all, isn't being extra aware and attentive and thoughtful about one's food part of what distinguishes a real gourmet?" His remarkable novel Infinite Jest (1,000 pages, 100 of them footnotes of a sort) demonstrated similar virtues.
