A note on footnotes
Blog: January 1st, 2010So I was reading Jorge Luis Borges when, upon scanning the footnote, it metioned that Borges got his version of the 47 Ronin (Japan’s most bad-ass true story over the last 400 years) from Mitford’s Tales of Old Japan. Now, as little as 5 years ago, the sources quoted from any footnote you read would [...]












