It's easy to dismiss all the goddess stuff as northern New South Wales eccentricity, but amidst the casual Mesopotamian priestess footnotes, she touches on some very real issues around our disconnect from sex.
On the evidence of her footnotes, she hasn't had an interview with Hillary Clinton since 1992, a fact that is perhaps explained by a profile she published in Vanity Fair that year portraying the First Lady as an armor-plated control freak.
"I love footnotes," she said, noting that "The Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds" included 3,500 of them.
"About 8 out of 10 of the words I have to write footnotes," she said.
She writes, "A Rat surrendered here," and in the next footnote she writes, "See poem No. 1340 by Emily Dickinson".
I loved the supporting players, the footnotes, and the author – she is not, I am convinced, Clarke, but a character in her own right, writing her book closer to Strange and Norrell's time than our own.
In a footnote, she said that only the government, and not opponents of the program, participated in the hearing, as is routine for such proceedings.
In a footnote, she added that the government's current estimation indicates that it would take over 13 business days to redact just one hour of footage.
She is even examining the footnotes.
In a footnote, she attributed this confidence to the Scientific Working Group on Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines.
