But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've.... : Quote by Jeffrey L. Staley

“ But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of putting footnotes in chapter 5, the autobiographical chapter, started out simply as a joke. Who but a biblical scholar would think of footnoting an autobiography? But the joke quickly got out of hand and become a significant part of that chapter. I plan someday to write a scholarly article consisting of a single sentence and a twenty-page footnote. ”

Jeffrey L. Staley
  • From : Reading with a Passion: Rhetoric
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