Status Updates From Finnegans Wake

I just noticed that the use of sidebars and footnotes only apply to pages 260-308. Why did he do this? Was it merely for absurdist reasons? Just as the text is largely though not completely obscure the footnotes and sidebars seems only partially related to the text referenced.

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Revenants, ghosts, specters… Tag urself I’m “Artist, Unworthy of the Homely Protestant Religion”

“Silence was in thy faustive halls, O Truiga, when thy green woods went dry but there will be sounds of manymirth on the night’s ear ringing”

“Words weigh no no more to him than raindrips to Rethfernhim. Which we all like. Rain. When we sleep. Drops. But wait until our sleeping. Drain. Sdops.”

Footnote 2: ‘Gamester Damester in the road to Rouen he grows more like his deed every die’

‘With sobs for his jobs, with tears for his toil, with horror for his squalor but with pep for his perdition, lo, the boor plieth as the laird birth him.’

The siss of the whisp of the sigh of the softzing at the stir of the ver grose O arundo of a long one in midias reeds: and shades began to glidder along the banks, greepsing, greepsing, duusk unto duusk, and it was as glooming as gloaming could be in the waste of all peacable worlds.

Most notable is all the extra textual activity; on left are foreign language italicized, right side capitalized stage directions, long italicized paragraph in French and four footnotes.

Nothing

I fear I have met my match

holy shit it’s actually all coming together

‘A halt for hearsake’ the. long footnote