Some critics puff their own arguments with a ‘had I but world enough and time’ gesture, saying that someone ought to conduct further study on something or other which will, for reasons of space, remain a footnote in their own work. That is a dishonest gesture. Just like someone being too busy at work to make time to see you is just not that into you, so the ideas that one does not make space for in a monograph are just not that interesting.
Thoughts fallen by the wayside 