issue no. 08 · what the page admits, in its margins
the trouble with footnotes1 is that they accumulate. one places a small numeral, and beneath it a sentence; soon there are forty, then four hundred. each refers to a slightly different person.
marginalia2 resist this. they are written sideways. they do not sum.
1 see also: footnote-lore.
2 on the lower right, where the binding holds.