Articles Archive for 20 February 2009
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This is the society I feel the urgent need to start today. Some days I’m just feeling murderous about people who misuse apostrophes or who say “bought” when they mean “brought”, but all of those sins are committed by people who are less able to do something about it. But when a novelist uses footnotes in a novel, they should know better.
The footnotes in novels that are annoying me
The reason I bring this up now is that I’ve been reading Marune: Alastor 993 by Jack Vance. This is the second …