Lagniappe
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
dcp - Apr 11, 2005 7:45:44 pm PDT #7356 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Hil R. - Apr 12, 2005 4:22:41 am PDT #7357 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
One of my math textbooks actually had a "lagniappe" section.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 12, 2005 5:44:54 am PDT #7358 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Speaking as a reader with no scholarly reading bent aside from hockey books, I'd say adding a little "see figure n" footnote in the appendix and adding it to the end might work. But an appendix to an appendix definitely evokes the image of Burgess Meredith in coke bottle glasses pulling a book off a top library shelf and blowing an inch of dust off it.
Typo Boy - Apr 12, 2005 5:05:17 pm PDT #7359 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, I was afraid of that. The problem is, after I put together, it is not just a table. It needs some explanation. I've avoided appendixes to appendixes everywhere else.
OK- I can borrow from journalists and textbooks - put in a long sidebar, or pullout or whatever they call it.
Or else I can just suck it up, and make the appendix a long one. If you've turned to the appendix presumably you are interested in the subject. So OK, this appendix is a bit detailed.
Betsy HP - Apr 12, 2005 5:09:09 pm PDT #7360 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You could make Appendix B "Lemma to Appendix A" or "Details of Section 5 in Appendix A" or something like that.
Connie Neil - Apr 12, 2005 7:43:22 pm PDT #7361 of 10002
brillig
In the interests of expanding my literary education, I downloaded Austen's "Northanger Abbey" from Gutenberg Project. I did not expect to laugh out loud twice before I got halfway through the first paragraph. Jane Austen can be snarky! What a lovely discovery. I might need to find a hard copy of this so I can read it on the bus and snicker in delight and have people give me funny looks. It always seems to amaze people that someone could be having a good time reading something in a "classic literature" binding. When I was reading "The Odyssey" and obviously getting into it, people kept asking me if I was reading it for a class. They looked utterly boggled when I said No.
Jim - Apr 12, 2005 9:49:56 pm PDT #7362 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Jane Austen can be snarky!
She kind of invented it.
Calli - Apr 13, 2005 5:42:06 am PDT #7363 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Northanger Abbey was my introduction to Jane Austen. It was love at first snark.
Fred Pete - Apr 13, 2005 5:47:54 am PDT #7364 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Not to mention the second reading of Sense and Sensibility. Marianne's superior attitude at the beginning becomes so much more comic when you know what's going to happen to her later.
Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2005 6:18:48 am PDT #7365 of 10002
brillig
Pride and Prejudice was the first Austen I ever read. It was interesting, but not immensely engaging. The matter-of-fact acceptance that gentlemen occasionally had bastard children to support was refreshing after dealing with books that pretended people didn't have sex until marriage. I think I will now trust the judgement of history that's kept Austen's books around.