Endnote Maniac

I didn't expect an owl in Kafka's diaries. I just didn't think of him as a nature guy, if you know what I mean, because I don't know what I mean, but luckily no one cares, and neither do I. Anyhow! There she was, suddenly, a teacher Kafka meets, "owlish young fresh face, full of lively tense features." Then, to my shock, the book was over a couple of pages later, but I should have known, because translator Ross Benjamin never met a sentence he didn't want to augment with an endnote. Did every endnote, however, serve an illuminating purpose? I read a lot of them, and I have to say no. But I like his energy!