Someone Stop Me Before I Footnote Again

I have become a compulsive footnoter. Is this even a real thing?  My spell-checker doesn’t think so. Cuppy writes that Alexander was called “The Great” because he killed more people of more nationalities than anyone up to that time.  A footnote goes on to explain he did this to impress Greek culture on them. I’ve never read RUR.  Is it any good? The conclusion of the novel has eerie resonance with Global Warming.  Intelligent super-newts are gradually destroying the continents, undermining the coastlines to create salt-water shallows in which to breed.  Humans continue abetting the process, supplying the newts with dredging equipment, etcetera, because there’s money in it. The misspelling was deliberate; the author was spoofing 18th Century orthography. Marvin Kitman.  I just looked it up. Although Infinite Jest was a little too infinite, if you ask me. This, for example. And it is, too, isn’t it? Everything else will be footnotes.