Oh, man, I'm so glad you love footnotes, too. I feel exactly the same way about them. Larnark by Alisadar Gray has some absolutely crazy funny footnotes. It would be good to create a list of novels that have these kinds of footnotes.
Quite a few of the footnotes in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell are short stories in their own right, and in many cases a footnote there is packed with more ideas than some authors would spin out into an entire novel.
Oh, man, I'm so glad you love footnotes, too. I feel exactly the same way about them. Larnark by Alisadar Gray has some absolutely crazy funny footnotes. It would be good to create a list of novels that have these kinds of footnotes.
Quite a few of the footnotes in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell are short stories in their own right, and in many cases a footnote there is packed with more ideas than some authors would spin out into an entire novel.
I'd forgotten about those!