All right, I'd love to use this method to "analyse" David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - half of which is endnotes (some entire chapters are endnotes, and some endnotes have footnotes).

Since writing that novel, Wallace has consistently used end/foot notes in all of his writing, both fiction and non-fiction. When asked in an interview why he chose to use that particular device ad nauseam, he replied that he'd just discovered the endnote function in Microsoft Word and started playing with it.

And yet, in a literature class, one might start to ascribe "real" meaning to his use of endnotes. (In retrospect, after having re-read this 1,000-page novel several times, there is some purposeful use to the endnotes: any of the chapters or long passages of text are flashback sequences.)

Andrew.