Footnotes in The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine is about a guy named Howie going up an escalator to eat lunch in the mezzanine. It has a simple plot, so many would think it would just be a short simple book. Instead, it is filled with discussions about many normal, everyday objects that can go on for pages. Along with that, it also has footnotes that occasionally show up on a random topic. While most footnotes are about either extra information or citing sources, in The Mezzanine they are used to further talk about some random object. While it is a cool concept, I think that most of the footnotes are fully irrelevant and are not needed. The biggest problem for me is how long some of them are. In chapter 8, at one point he mentions how escalators are built to be safe, and from this he somehow writes a 4 page long footnote talking about them. At the start he is able to describe why exactly they are safe without it being too long. "And escalators are safe: their safety the result (I now be...