Last year my motto was “no day without a note.” Indeed, there were few days when I did not add at least one note to my bloated book. This year my motto will be “no day without an addendum.” Both are equally misguided, but this year’s motto gives me a bit more pleasure.

Addendum (April 27, 2000)

Since the beginning of the year I have written two-hundred and twenty-four notes and ninety-six addenda, including twenty-seven addenda to notes written this year. This total does not include this addendum, though. This is not a bad record by comparison with previous years, but I am still not close enough to the ideal set out in this piece. As there have been one-hundred and eighteen days since the beginning of the year, I am twenty-two addenda short of my aim. That is, twenty-one addendum counting this one.