These miniature dramas don't affect the story, yet we're forced to glance at them, like footnotes, or a silent chorus; they suggest a larger universe of loneliness and connection.
An irritated non-reader (or non-fan) who happened in on this story three days earlier and saw Commissioner Selig standing up in his box in San Diego but not applauding Bonds as he circled the bases after his tying seven-hundred-and-fifty-fifth poke, against the Padres, would sense at the same moment that footnotes or a movie version would not begin to clear things up.
It does, however, highlight one of the book's minor flaws: an over-anxious cramming in of too many obscure statistics and calculations that should have been relegated to footnotes or an annex.Another is the author's slightly unfair attitude towards government.
Less dismissively, McDowell 1976: 174 suggests that the Digression serves "a purpose which, in a modern book, might be served by footnotes or an appendix".
Given Yarger's training as a folklorist, additional linkages to critical and feminist medical history resources through footnotes or an expanded notes section would have helped her make broader connections to studies and theories of medicalized childbirth and midwifery that have proliferated over the last two decades.
But Mr. Levin, like many others, said he wondered whether Vonage would be a historical footnote or a viable concern.
To those affected by the blast on Mount Gearheart the Japanese campaign is not a historical footnote, or a terror template, but a source of enduring grief.
"Whether in 30 or 40 years these few trials will appear in political and juridical history as a footnote, or a real chapter, only the future will show," Mr. Walther said.
Despite a great body of empirical and interdisciplinary work on cross-examination, legal scholarship often relegates discussion of cross-examination's benefits and costs to an errant footnote or a short paragraph.
Al-Barghouti told me that in the streets of Cairo and the Palestinian territories, children compete at reciting his poem "In Jerusalem," a mournful narrative poem that follows a cab ride into and then back out of Jerusalem, in which the speaker laments that the city he loves regards him only as "a footnote or a margin".
Muslims for Progressive Values "are little more than a footnote or a special interest," she writes in an email.
