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His 58 pages of often tedious footnotes don't do much to lend his argument objectivity or balance.
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Fintan O'Toole Dublin Caleb Crain replies: I agree that in a book for a general audience, it would be tedious to footnote the facts sentence by sentence.
I only put in this horrendously sterile, water-carrying footnote to fend off very tedious "well actually…" replies to I'm going to get from Reddit mods on Twitter.
I only put in this horrendously sterile, water-carrying footnote to fend off very tedious "well actually…" replies I'm going to get from people on Reddit and Twitter.
But de La Grange's study amounts to several thousand dense pages in which genuinely important information is mixed in with tedious data about long-forgotten singers, ticket sales and contract negotiations, along with more footnotes than a David Foster Wallace novel (and nowhere near as much fun).
Footnote: the AFL's own comically inefficient review system was also only marginally less tedious last year.
("The footnotes! The footnotes!").
And footnotes.
Why footnotes?
Tedious, dull.
"So it's tedious, really tedious.
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