Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001224, Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:46:54 -0700

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Re: Footnotes (fwd)
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From: Priscilla Meyer <pmeyer@wesleyan.edu>

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Jonathan Swift's view of the Index might be applied to the Footnote:

The most accomplished way of using Books at present...is to get a thorough
insight into the index, by which the whole Book is turned and governed,
like Fishes by the Tail
A Tale of a Tub, Section VII

Priscilla Meyer