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The footnotes are among the first things I look at when I pull a book from a store shelf.
Among the footnotes are things like: Lute & Zither Festival; Toxic-Waste Overlook; Interminable Delays; Overcrowded Beach Cranberry-Bog Theme Parkk.
Marcus isn't an academic (a condition she praises as "a rarity" earlier in the review), so who cares where the footnotes are tucked?
The footnotes are full of strange facts: eel blood, for example, may have been the toxin secreted in the Borgias' notorious rings.
The footnotes are conversational, not reference-oriented; the slim bibliography leans heavily on fan magazines and biographies; and many of the quotations are unattributed or loosely credited.
The author "makes Auden dull, a mere clerk of the emotions," William Logan wrote here last year, though he found that "Mendelson's readings fathom the poem phrase by phrase, and even the footnotes are lively with criticism".
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Like Funny Cide, Read the Footnotes is New York bred.
"We're even with last year, but the little asterisk in the footnotes is that last year was really lousy too," he said.
Read the Footnotes is a son of Smoke Glacken, a freakishly fast horse who was named the champion sprinter of 1997 but never won beyond a mile.
On the inside, Second of June kept his head in front, and Read the Footnotes was having problems cutting into the slim lead under jockey Jerry Bailey.
Read the Footnotes was an easy winner of four of his starts last year but was hampered by a breathing problem in his fifth.
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