This book does for footnotes what Lynne Truss did for punctuation, what John Pollack did for puns, and what Simon Garfield did for fonts. It explores the genesis, history, various roles and somewhat uncertain future of the lowly yet unconquerable footnote. Zerby adopts a chatty yet somewhat curmu...
A dismal treatise on the laws of Moses by John Weemes jumps to mind. Weemes should have been saved by providence for our current era, when he would have served splendidly in traffic court; he delights in minutiae and in the pounding of a gavel. A right-hand column appears in the pages of his book...