Sometimes they're stark tales of life-threatening catastrophes, but more often they're just footnotes to the ordinary but bloody detours that befall us on the roadways of life.
Skim through your sources, locating the useful material, then make good notes of it, including quotes and information for footnotes.
But at more than 400 pages, plus 60 more of dense footnotes, the book is too long to be saved by whimsical interjections.
Nothing is sacrificed to curtail its length; the only concession is to remove the footnotes from the text.
I myself have recently been taken to task by her in The New York Times Book Review for omitting footnotes in " Citizens, " my book about the French Revolution, a work expressly written for a popular audience.
Love and dream are the two footnotes of youth. If you are a normal healthy natural person, step by step and step by step, some of them will always be there.
Equally puzzling is that the book's footnotes give no references for its most startling contentions.
Unlike stingy private-sector publishers these days, they have indulged in such rarities as a proper index, footnotes, bibliography and colour plates.
The marriage equality law was such a powerful finale to this year's legislative session that a few other important measures may be relegated to the footnotes.
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