footnotes

— under the text · weighted —

most of the labyrinth is footnote¹. the main text is short, perhaps a single page, perhaps a single sentence: this is a building². everything else is annotation³ attached to that sentence by long chains of dotted lines⁴.

you, the reader, are the last footnote⁵. what you make of the sentence is the footnote that completes it.

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1. a structure peculiar to large or old buildings — including libraries, basements, and dreams.
2. disputed. see errata. some hold that the sentence is, rather, this is a corridor.
3. on annotation, see marginalia, palimpsest.
4. dotted lines have been laid in the floor of every corridor for the convenience of footnotes.
5. if you would like to write your own footnote, see visitor. if you would like instead to subtract yourself from the page entirely, see silence.

marginalia palimpsest errata catalogue return