infinite footnotes

[Andrew Dinn]

Jeffrey Stadelman writes:

> *  "He gets back to the Casino just as big globular raindrops, thick as
> honey, begin to splat into giant asterisks on the pavement, inviting him
> to look down at the bottom of the text of the day, where footnotes will
> explain all.  He isn't about to look.  Nobody ever said a day has to be
> juggled into any kind of sense at day's end.  He just runs."  GR, Bantam
> p. 238

Hmm, just a passing thought but if those asterisks are written `on the
pavement' then presumably the `bottom of the text of the day' the
place where you can find those footnotes which `will explain all' is
the gutter? Where else would you look for explanations in a TRP novel?


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.