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[the_rck]

Am I the only person who, when reading non-fiction, prefers footnotes to endnotes? I'm pretty much never willing to interrupt my reading for long enough to page to the back and find the note and read it, but I feel like I'm losing something by not doing it. Except that, if I do page back and it's an ibid or an op cit, I feel very, very cheated. I like scholarly digressions and expansions. I think it's because those are better potential hooks for stories because they're off at an angle from what everybody knows.

I'm currently trying to pull my head together enough to answer some emails and to call my mother. I'm simply not all here, and I worry that I'll end up saying something ridiculous/incomprehensible or offensive because my brain is somewhere six miles away from here and only talking to me by semaphore. I suppose my mother will likely forgive me most stupidity.

And I just tried to call Mom and got an all circuits are busy message. That's disappointing after the stress of working myself up to do it.

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[retsuko]

I adore footnotes, as I feel much the same way you do about ibid. David Foster Wallace's _A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again_ (besides having the world's best title) has a TON of footnotes and it is super-funny.

[the_rck]

Thanks for the recommendation! I've put a hold on it. I could use a laugh.