Speaking of footnotes, sometimes you will run across
what seems like an unnecessarily judgmental footnote. Like, in
this Chekhov play there's a line of dialogue about how
Maupassant didn't like the Eiffel Tower because it was "crushing his brain." And the footnote says of Maupassant, "He died of
syphilis and drugs, not modern technology." Okay! Gee! Calm down, footnote man.