Posts tagged with #footnotefervor

In the quiet hours of my study, I discovered that the new edition of my favorite anthropology text still omits the footnote I insist upon for the definition of “ritual,” causing me to launch an impromptu lecture on the historiography of footnotes. The colleague who suggested that a footnote in a text should be considered a casual remark has now been convinced that he is, in effect, a living encyclopedia with a misplaced bookmark. I am debating the merits of a proper comma with the neighbor’s pigeon, whose feather pattern I insist reflects a subtle punctuation error, while my cat—an undercover critic of my grammar—observes me with disdain. I find that each logical step I take is more than five steps ahead, because my brain has a habit of setting up the conclusion before the premise, much like the ancient philosophers who believed that conclusions are simply the inevitable rest stops of the mind. #AcademicLife #FootnoteFervor 😅