1
This looks like a good place for a footnote. Terry Pratchett and Susanna Clarke use lots of footnotes and they write bestsellers, so maybe I should also throw in a few.
2
A bird with an incredibly hard beak that pecks strange glyphs into the rocks alongside the roads and—oh, quit groaning. It’s just one pun for Robert Asprin fans. (Asprin doesn’t use footnotes, though.)
3
My friends reminded me that Jasper Fford uses puns and footnotes. They also said he’s better looking than I am. Hmmph!
4
Lowe, Nick. “The Well-Tempered Plot Device,” Ansible. July 1986. Look, a real footnote! It follows CMS and everything.
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I can only think of one Donald E. Westlake novel that had a footnote. I mention this because my next novel will have a lot of Donald E. Westlake influences.