Notes

Editing

This site is based upon memory and memory is fallible. Once I post a story here, it’s quite likely that I will go back to it and change things: I’ve already found myself correcting errors that others have pointed out, or expanding upon difficult-to-understand passages, or adding footnotes¹ where necessary. I won’t apologize this; this is the nature of memory, and, more importantly, it’s the nature of the online medium. Unlike a printed book, the web is not static and we can change it as much as we like. The version you read is the way the site exists at a specific point in time, and thus it may not be exactly the same site that someone else encounters.

I don’t expect wholesale Stalinesque deletions of people or events, however.

Footnotes

This web site uses footnotes.² Unlike a printed document, these footnotes are not (usually) used for citations and references, as in an academic paper. Instead, I’ve deliberately used them to capture additional information or commentary so as to not break up the flow of the narrative. Because this blog is, primarily, intended to be a narrative of my life. I’m writing for myself this time, trying to capture those memories that have proven to be so ephemeral over time. If they interest you, then I’m glad of it. If the footnotes annoy you, then feel free to say so.³