You are so my favorite fanboy, and I know that subject title was aimed right at me...so *cute*!
However, I must say, I'm kind of surprised that you can still be surprised by the realization that the metatexts and paratexts can often be longer than the actual text...you were there with me for grad school, remember?
Lots of love and footnotes,1 Your Meta Girl
1 I really can't think of anything to actually put in this footnote, but you know footnotes = love, and the whole discussion of paratexts made me feel that this mash note really required a footnote, even if it was just a symbolic footnote and not actually a footnote containing actually content, althugh of course, the act of creating a footnote in and of itself could be seen as symbolic, in a metatextual view, so perhaps the non-content is full of content after all, and really, it's not like Richard Burton didn't make all footnotes which came after imply a certain level of madness on the part of the footnoter and, if House of Leaves could be said to be in any sense traditional, it was that it followed in the footnotes of such madmen.
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You are so my favorite fanboy, and I know that subject title was aimed right at me...so *cute*!
However, I must say, I'm kind of surprised that you can still be surprised by the realization that the metatexts and paratexts can often be longer than the actual text...you were there with me for grad school, remember?
Lots of love and footnotes,1
Your Meta Girl
1 I really can't think of anything to actually put in this footnote, but you know footnotes = love, and the whole discussion of paratexts made me feel that this mash note really required a footnote, even if it was just a symbolic footnote and not actually a footnote containing actually content, althugh of course, the act of creating a footnote in and of itself could be seen as symbolic, in a metatextual view, so perhaps the non-content is full of content after all, and really, it's not like Richard Burton didn't make all footnotes which came after imply a certain level of madness on the part of the footnoter and, if House of Leaves could be said to be in any sense traditional, it was that it followed in the footnotes of such madmen.