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Often when I survey my books I am reminded of a quote from the wonderful Terry Pratchett:
“The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is:
Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass;
a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
– Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” Footnote, 8 p.
(It is interesting to note that the electronic versions of Guards! Guards! lack Pratchett's lovely footnotes. They are humorous and add to his books. Their exclusion is the worst form of literary villainy.)
Footnote ie. note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page.Many books do not include footnotes, although I believe they should. Footnotes explain and add to the story in my experience, and are nice to have.
Footnote i.e.: a note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page.Few books include footnotes, although I believe it better explains what's going in the story, an adds to it.
