Laura Occasionally Blogs

The intro to "Just One of Those Things" goes, "As Dorothy Parker once said to her boyfriend, 'Fare thee well.' ..." I think I get it confused with the intro to "The Lady is a Tramp," because I always misremember it as "As Dorothy Parker once said to her boyfriend, Noel Coward, ..."

And I think, "Well, that's blatantly untrue."

But you know what? For those few moments before I remember I'm wrong, I have a new respect for that song.

After I complained when the footnotes TOTALLY SPOILED ME for a plot development in Can You Forgive Her?, my mom recommended that I do what she does, which is not to flip to the notes during the book, but to read them all at the end. That way you get any interesting historical notes, but you don't have the experience of being like, "Well, that was a waste of a flip," and if they stay something like "This is foreshadowing for two chapters from now when Lord Dealywhatsit snaps and totally unexpectedly goes on a murderous rampage!" (NOT A REAL EXAMPLE), you won't be ACTIVELY ANGRY at them. (I mean, why would you do that?! You gotta figure at least a percentage of the people reading the book--more than half, I would hazard--are reading it for the first time!)

(Also, you don't need to point out foreshadowing! Jerks!)

Well I just finished Eustace Diamonds on the bus this morning and I was reading the notes and they SPOIL ME FOR SOMETHING AT THE END OF THE NEXT BOOK


WHYYYYYYYYY


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