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Oohh, got it! Had forgotten about Don't Panic! - new book added to TBR! I actually first encountered the humorous use of footnotes only in the Discworld novels, and was sort of surprised by all that could be done with them, so assumed Sir Terry was the first.

Hello Mr. Gaiman!

Idk if it has been asked before, and sorry if it has, but whose idea was it to include footnotes in Good Omens? I'm guessing Sir Terry's, mainly because his books usually have them in abundance while yours usually don't (haven't yet read Stardust, Neverwhere, Norse Mythology and Anansi Boys - hope to get to them soon! - so don't know about those, but i don't think i remember any in American Gods, Coraline, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Graveyard Book, or in The Neil Gaiman Reader).

Also, once you agreed on including them, who wrote more footnotes? Or was that also a collab thing, to get to the next funny bit, even in footnotes?

Thank you for your books and being. Hope the WGA strike comes to a good end, however long it takes.

I used to be really big on footnotes -- you'll find them all the way through Don't Panic! (1987). You couldn't really do them in comics, and by the time I got to Neverwhere it felt like Terry had sort of claimed Footnotes for himself, so I didn't use many after that -- I think there's one in Anansi Boys.

There were already footnotes in William The Antichrist, the first 5,000 words of Good Omens I showed Terry, that he asked if he could co-write with me, so they were already part of the style of Good Omens.

Sometimes the one of us writing the bit would also write the footnote. Sometimes the other one would notice a bit that would footnote nicely, and write it.

So conan gray started footnote with "You said at the party that I was too drunk I told you I liked you, you said, "Sober up" But why would I lie? It's so clear, I'm in love With you A tensed conversation, you like someone else I said, "If I waited, could that maybe help?"You told me the patience won't change how you felt for me" and ended it with "please dont forget me a footnote will do"

Hello? Am I a joke?? My feelings are joke??? All those emotions???? CONAN GRAY I HATE YOU WITH ALL MY GUTS HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME😭😭😭

screw you conan gray. I never wanna listen to footnotes again that shit has me ugly crying wtf .

Third Classroom...

My third classroom…

I taught Shakespeare.

I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen-years-old.

My classroom was chaotic and stunk of school lunches.

Once again, the ‘weird’ kid was the center of attention.

Seriously though, how hard is it to read the footnotes?

They hold the keys to the wonders of the world!