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Finally, a role for the DFW-inspired footnote-heavy writing style!

Edit: to be more constructive, it doesn't seem like this would be hard to represent in the underlying data:

    ...
    <p>omnia haec, quaecumque feret uoluntas
    caelitum, temptare simul parati,
    pauca nuntiate meae puellae
    non bona dicta.</p>

    <p>cum suis uiuat ualeatque moechis,
    quos simul complexa tenet trecentos,
    nullum amans uere, sed identidem omnium
    ilia rumpens;</p>

    <aside>
    The next part is usually taken at face value, but, really? Try
    reading it in the most insincere and melodramatic way possible and
    it becomes quite funny. His love is cut down like a flower by the
    plow? Seriously? Have you read the rest of Catullus's poetry?
    Have you read the rest of this poem? The last verse was about how
    many lovers his ex girlfriend is sleeping with (300 at once).
    </aside>

    <p>nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem,
    qui illius culpa cecidit uelut prati
    ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam
    tactus aratro est</p>
I'm sure there are much better ways to do it than that; that seems like a workable starting point, though.

But I'm really surprised that newspapers and magazines really present different versions of the same story to digital readers vs. print readers.



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