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[–] goosehorse@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 month ago

I think the footnotes enhanced my love of that book.

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