DFW is notorious for this, in his non-fiction essays he goes on so many tangents within the main text already, often only to then go off on yet another tangent

DFW is notorious for this, in his non-fiction essays he goes on so many tangents within the main text already, often only to then go off on yet another tangent in an almost page-long footnote. Funny thing is he sort of parodied himself by going all out in his 2005 piece "Host" [1] by going so far as to nest footnotes within each other. That piece is actually interesting to compare across different media, as the interactivity of the web version makes it somewhat elegant to look at or skip the footnotes at the reader's discretion, whereas in the print edition in "Consider the Lobster", they are put in boxes within the main text and connected by arrows. It takes a great deal of concentration/"work" to read his stuff but when you're in the right frame of mind all the depths and semi-related thoughts can make it all the more interesting... 1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/04/host/303812/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/04/host/30...