Footnotes Are The Finer-suckered Surfaces That Allow

Haven't You Felt A Peculiar Sort Of Worry About The Chair In Your Living Room That No One Sits In?

Footnotes Are The Finer-suckered Surfaces That Allow Testicular Paragraphs To Hold Fast To The Wider Reality Of The Library.

Each Decision - To Kill, To Sign A Petition, To Write A Letter, To Make A Speech, To Attack, To Lie, To Surrender - Was Made At Some Point In Somebody's Day.

The Equivocations, The Confusions, The Contradictions. There's No Way We Can Live Through Or Comprehend Something So Big That Happened So Long Ago. We've Lost True History. But If We Are Willing To Tolerate The Contradictions, And If We Suffer Through Events Rather Than Ticking Them Off, We May At Least Get Closer To Understanding What Happened Than If We Grip The Handrail Of A Carefully Polished And Reassuringly Heroic Narrative.

Shoes Are The First Adult Machines We Are Given To Master.