“footnotes reaching up like skyscrapers”

Vladimir Nabokov, cited in Andre Lefevere Translating Poetry: seven strategies and a blueprint

I want translations with copious footnotes, footnotes reaching up like skyscrapers to the top of this or that pages so as to leave only the gleam of one textual line between commentary and eternity.

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