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>read endnote
>"haha made you look"

>> No.14760771
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14760771

>>14760745
>randomly look at an endnote to get the citation
>the endnote for that number of a four page sub-essay which is crucial to understanding the overall thesis
>nowhere in the actual bodytext did the author mention the endnote nor its importance

>> No.14760789

>author cites Ibid again

>> No.14760877

>Read footnote
>Get turned on

>> No.14760908

>>14760745
>"No Idea."

>> No.14760949

>>14760745
kek'd

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14761141

>Oxford World's Classic edition of a text written before the 20th century
>Explanatory note references the holocaust

>> No.14761349

>>14760789
Who is that jerk anyway?

>> No.14761374

>>14760745
>read endnote
>references another endnote that references another and another (...) "Fuck you, faggot!"

>> No.14761498

>footnotes are done by a female not even involved in any way with how the novel was written

>> No.14761568

>>14761374
I miss high school text books

>> No.14761914
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14761914

>introduction spoils the story
great way to INTRODUCE A READER TO SOMETHING yeah just fucking tell them what happens. fucking cunts

>> No.14762024

>>14761141
Yeah fuck Walter Kauffman for doing that with footnotes for Nietzsche, whom he otherwise translates with a keen eye for his literary affects, and even more annoyingly mixes in with genuinely insightful footnotes. We don’t need you to fucking defend his every other controversial sentence to every midwit in existence; let Nietzsche speak for himself, which he is more than capable of, and to whom controversy is arguably the whole point of half of his entire philosophy

>> No.14762081

>>14761141
>Oxford World's Classic edition of a text written before the 1st century
>Introduction feels compelled to apologize for the author's misogyny
It's feels so patronizing. As if I would be shocked that Ovid doesn't #RespectWomen the way we do.

>> No.14762601

>>14761914
Based. Plotfags deserve the gallows.

>> No.14762626

>read book
>book is not a video game
>throw away book
>am happy now

>> No.14762688

>explanatory endnotes
should be a criminal offense