What is remarkable is how often, as we learn in extremely engaging and well written footnotes and endnotes, such flights of fancy have a basis in reality.
Smith would have liked to argue a few points with the man, but he knew that the lexicon of the ranch didn't always fare well against footnotes and Ph.D.s.
(1) Not to mention the strategic deployment of a well-placed footnote.
Aristotle should therefore be acquitted of an accusation made against him by J.L. Austin in a well-known footnote to his paper, "A Plea For Excuses".
Her masses of borrowings and imitations are saved from inertia by an Iris Murdochian belief in the momentousness of sexual attraction (usually described from the male point of view), and by a fine eye and ear for natural detail as well as for footnotes.
They cannot simply contemplate such a theory; they need to be able to assert it as well (Azzouni 2009b, footnotes 31, 43, 53, and 55, and p. 171).
Indeed, a month from now, the embarrassment in the home opener may well be a footnote.
(Likewise, D. H. Lawrence might very well be a footnote if not for "Lady Chatterley's Lover").
"I don't get to listen to a lot of music when I write about Andrew Jackson," he added, and appended a footnote, "Well, 'The Battle of New Orleans,' maybe".
Sure, this is a finale, so the stakes are necessarily going to be higher, but when the outcome of a presidential election -- on a show that is at least nominally about politics -- plays as a mere footnote, well, then you've got one overstuffed episode on your hands.
