Orlando · Chapter
Endnotes explained
The endnotes provide brief clarifications and references, noting a kindly mistake in the main text and directing readers to published works for well-known sayings.
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The endnotes provide brief clarifications and references, noting a kindly mistake in the main text and directing readers to published works for well-known sayings.
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“The Captain must have been mistaken, as a reference to any textbook of literature will show; but the mistake was a kindly one, and so we let it stand.”
The Captain's error is evident from any literature textbook, but it was well-intentioned, so we leave it uncorrected.
Acknowledges a factual error in the narrative that is allowed to remain due to its benevolent nature.
“These sayings are too well known to require repetition, and besides, they are all to be found in his published works.”
These quotations are so familiar that they need not be restated, and they are available in his published writings.
Defers citation of famous sayings by directing readers to the author's own works.
