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question:how-does-the-marching-steady-pace-of-a-text-block-hold-its-own-against-the-slithering-sometimes-sneering-snarky-or-otherwise-undercutting-character-of-the-footnoteHow does the marching steady pace of a text block hold its own against the slithering, sometimes sneering, snarky, or otherwise undercutting character of the footnote?
Dramatizes the struggle between main text and paratext.
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- Characterizes the subversive potential of footnotes, marginalia, and embedded commentary.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Points out how deeply internalized layout norms become naturalized and unnoticed.
- If a text attempts to stand alone, it will almost certainly attract commentary or interference.hypothesis0.745Predicts the inevitability of dialogic intrusion upon any statement.
- If the snippet works well, it may be adopted and spread to new construction methods, even in the context of different attitudes.hypothesis0.741Conditional prediction about the self-propagation of small effective sequences.
- Opens up imaginative alternatives to conventional layout.