• goosehorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months 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.caEnglish
      3·
      2 months 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.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I think the footnotes enhanced my love of that book.

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