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Oct 10, 2020, 11 tweets

1. Great moments in the history of footnoting, a series.

2. Great moments in the history of footnoting, con't.

3. Great moments in the history of footnoting, con't.

4. Great moments in the history of footnoting, con't.

5. Great moments in history of footing, from Hugh Kenner's The Stoic Comedians (1963), where the footnotes themselves illustrate the argument about the literary effect of footnotes.

6. Great moments in the history of footnotes: Fredric Jameson's Marxism & Form (1971) has a footnote that is similar in effect to Kenner, ibid. I think deliberately so since Jameson reviewed Kenner in Bucknell Review, 18(1) (Spring, 1970) 63–80.

7. Great moments in the history of footnotes: C.L.R. James in Black Jacobins in subsequent edition of Black Jacobins reminding readers he foresaw World War II.

8. Great moments in the history of footnotes, con't.

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10. Great moments in the history of footnotes, con't.

11. Great moments in the history of footnotes, con't.

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