what the fuck

Based, you shouldn't write an Introduction if you don't have anything to say

>>24510206 (OP)
meanwhile, a bucket crab on /wg/ complains about the very existence of the 1100-word essay that prefaces my novel

It should be longer. With each new printing the introduction should become exponentially longer, until it becomes the book itself. The appendix should number two hundred pages or more. The reference list should run for a thousand pages and contain every book every read by both the original author and author's of the introduction, commentaries, footnotes, and addendums. Every book contains every other book, we need to begin demonstrating this plainly.

>>24511344
>>24510206 (OP)

> Naturally, Victoria (Ocampo) and Ortega (y Gasset) argue that Dante cannot be read because commentary interferes between us and him: all footnotes block the reading. What she was doing but another commentary? Perhaps biografìes and essays will substitute the classics, perhaps all the footnotes have become essentials - Borges

>>24510206 (OP)
If the introduction isn't written by the author and is over three pages long I just skip it, same as I do to translator prefaces, acknowledgements and editor's notes.

>>24512686
the 100 page introduction to Rob Roy is written by the author

>>24510206 (OP)

You are like a little baby. Watch this

>>24511344
Go back to your grave Jacques, resurrecting Rousseau is passé

>>24513199
>postface as a preface
>introduction in the appendix
cursed

>>24510206 (OP)
based beyond belief

>>24511505
I don't get it