Status Updates From La Cité des Saints et des Fous

I probably read about ten pages before I got to the footnotes and bibliography, which must have taken at least 60 pages in themselves. The footnotes id already read as I went of course, but the bibliography... pages and pages of fictional books and papers with the occasional note from the fictional writer of the short story I was on, including explaining very odd plots of squid debauchery. Weird fiction indeed.