Wednesday, November 12, 2008

realness

are any of the footnotes real?



find one footnote that is real and post it in the comment section of this blog post.









[here's the catch, you can NOT use any footnotes that your classmates have already found and posted here]

16 comments:

Thomas Mikos said...

The 'Leo Tolstoy, 1982, Penguin Classics in New York, p. 885' on page 34. This is an actual Tolstoy quote found in Chapter 16 of War and Peace.

Rob Adams said...

Page 47 has an actual quote from King Lear. Subscript 61 King Lear, IV, vi, 147.

Kevin said...

The quote from Martin Heidegger in pages 24-25 is an actual quote from his book Sein und Zeit, or Being and Time (Subscript 32, Martin Heidegger Sein und Zeit, p. 250-251)

Jesse said...

page 46, footnote 59: from William Wordsworth's On the Power of Sound.

Oasis @ Nickerson Beach said...

In describing Reston's accident on page 37, footnote 43 about the Cobra's in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Nag and Nagaina is real.

hoboacademic said...

Hey: check out this, I just found it on the NY Times...http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?hp

Rich McLean said...

Page 123 footnote 155: In describing the Egyptian labyrinth, Pliny noted how "when the doors open there is a terrifying runmble of thunder within."

Ariella's Blog said...

But Moses said to g-d "Who am I that I should go to Pharoh and free the Israelites from Egypt` ED

Ismail Amin said...

Page 7 Mirjana Gortchakova's "Home Front" in Gentleman's Quarterly, v. 65, October 1995, p. 224

Oh yeah it's real!

Danaya's 21st Century American Lit Blogs said...

pg.76 was an actual quote from Selwyn Hyrkas " the end of city life" in interview, v. 25 October 1995, pg. 54 also G.G Blake Hist. Radio Telegr 1926, PG. 111-112.

mattmega said...

page 125: Dealing with agoraphobia, an actual case from the Time Life book Planet Earth: Underground Worlds p. 26-27

Jaime said...

Footnote 59 pg 46. An actual poem by William Wordsworth is used.
Ye Voices, and ye shadows
And Images of voice - to hound and horn
From rocky steep and rock-bestudded meadows
Flung bac, and, in the sky's blue caves reborn

This is actually a segment from a larger work.

Peter said...

"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind" - Mary Shelley (Pg 8) (Read "Frankenstein" Jr yr of High School)

Anti-Establishment said...

Page 19 the reference made to. Exodus
3.11 is real. Moses actually questions God about him being unqualified.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:1gZLYIPMVfMJ:www.catalystchurch.cc/pdfs/07-08/exodus3.pdf+exodus+3.11&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Terence said...

Page 167, Footnote 203: Otto Fenichel's 1934 essay "The Psychology of Boredom"...
It is an actual work; see attached article if interested: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E3DB1738F936A25751C1A962958260

Shanoa said...

Page 19 footnote 25 (the translation) Canto II; lines 31-32