• goosehorse@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    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.

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      24 days 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
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        23 days ago

        I think the footnotes enhanced my love of that book.

        And I alway think kindly of Pterry’s nested footnotes.