WE HAVE A SOLUTION TO THIS, THEY ARE CALLED FOOTNOTES.
"COME OUT COME OUT AND FLIP TO THE BACK OF THE FUCKING BOOK AND SEARCH FOR THE TINY NUMBER. OH YOU HAVE A PDF? THEN FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING LIFE" - DERANGED SICKO PUBLISHERS
Under communism, endnotes will be banned and punishable by law.
infinite jest is my favorite novel, but i also enjoyed the novelty of having to use double bookmarks and being constantly reminded of the physical bounds of reading
Wait, it uses endnotes not footnotes? God damn, Foster Wallace was a sadist.
I've read some of his essays, he was a good writer. I may read infinite jest one day, my partner enjoyed it.
yeah, and the endnotes themselves are a trip. they're like a quasiacademic experiment in writing. i'm a big nerd so i enjoyed the pedantry of its formatting, but it also has a lot of interesting things to say about addiction and entertainment that remain extremely relevant today.
it's such an ADHD ass book. why would i just go one page at a time, the narrative is in a big pile on the floor and i get to put it together like a lego set.
oh, you wanted a chronologically ordered narrative? fuck you, the years have names, the order is on a random page, fuck you for wanting to figure out how this fits together. it's like a big puzzle, and half the narrative doesn't even directly happen within the pages