Re: indexing jokes?

["Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>]

At 08:08 PM 6/4/97 -0400, Deborah Shaw wrote:

>  These references appear in the index to the 3rd edition (1963)
>  of Gordon Carey's _Making an Index_.
>
>     Chase, wild goose. _See_ Von Kluck
>     Goose chase, wild. _See_ Kluck, Von
>     Kluck, von. _See_ Von Kluck
>     Von Kluck. _See_ Kluck, von
>     Wild goose chase. _See_ Kluck, von
>
>When I put a joke in my first index, I told the editors that one existed.
>One of the editors found it, the other didn't. The joke was published with
>the index.
>
I may have sent this out before, but there's a similar joke in Vladimir
Nabokov's novel _Pale Fire_, which is in the form of a 999 line poem with
scholarly apparatus and an index. If you look up "word golf," you are sent
along a similar series of _See_ references until you end up at "word golf"
again.

--Wayne Douglass

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