I’m working my way through House of Leaves right now, and the real horror is the grad school flashbacks from trying to follow the footnotes.
my boss: "no you are in stem now"
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goosehorse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell by Susanna Clarke is pretty fantastic/terrible about that. The footnotes are often entire short stories and span many pages.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I think the footnotes enhanced my love of that book.
And I alway think kindly of Pterry’s nested footnotes.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Could they not do the lil numbers with the footnotes instead?
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is a footnote
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Holy fucking shit.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
They’re usually end notes.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
And still footnotes >>>>>>> […] >>> endnotes.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
It’s even worse when you’re quoting some motherfucker that took PRIDE in plagiarism. Did Thomas More source his claims? No. He just made them and dared your peasant ass to say something about it.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nobody can convince me that’s a good format.
The “battles [1][7][8][9][31][42][44][45][47][64][65][67][68][83][99]” format is superior and I’ll die on that hill!
i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 1 year ago
In other words, IEEE > Harvard
lud@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah this is awful to read.