>put unrelated references at the start of each chapter so everyone can see how chungus erudite you areWhat a pseud.
Many such cases.
>unrelatedniquedouille
Stendhal does this in Armance and Le Rouge et le Noir but they usually have something vaguely to do with each chapter
But everyone loves this when Eco does it?
>>25240940But is it good?
They're called epigraphs.
>>25240940that was the norm when the reading public wasn't completely retarded