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Über das Recht, sein Steckenpferd zu reiten – oder: Die Höflichkeit der Vernunft – Von Onkel Michael
Es gibt Sätze, die auf den ersten Blick unscheinbar wirken und doch ein ganzes Weltbild tragen. Einer davon stammt aus Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy:
Solange ein Mensch sein Steckenpferd friedlich und ohne Aufsehen auf des Königs Landstraße reitet und weder Sie noch mich zwingt, hinter ihm aufzusitzen – ei, mein Herr –, was geht es dann uns beide an?
Ein Satz, so leicht wie Tee mit Milch, und doch schwer wie ein moralischer Grundstein.
https://onkelmichael.blog/2025/11/06/von-steckenpferden-toleranz-und-anderen-fixen-ideen/
#artikel #laurenceSterne #onkelMichael #tristramShandy #vernunft #wissen #zitat
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"Feel it, said she."
The most erotic scene in all of literature.
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Joseph Wright of Derby -- Maria and her Dog Silvio -- oil on canvas -- illustrating Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'. The model was Mrs Richard Bassano. I W.pinxt, 1781 -- Derby Museum and Art Gallery -- Public domain.
I've just finished "A Sentimental Journey". Charming work, half novel, half travel literature, all infused with both a playful flirtatiousness and an irony that can leave the reader guessing yet not frustrated. The Maria episode that comes towards the end of the book and was foreshadowed in "Tristram Shandy" captured the imagination of readers and artists.
>>When we had got within half a league of Moulines, at a little opening in the road leading to a thicket, I discovered poor Maria sitting under a poplar. She was sitting with her elbow in her lap, and her head leaning on one side within her hand:—a small brook ran at the foot of the tree...
She was dress’d in white, and much as my friend described her, except that her hair hung loose, which before was twisted within a silk net.—She had superadded likewise to her jacket, a pale green riband, which fell across her shoulder to the waist; at the end of which hung her pipe.
Her goat had been as faithless as her lover; and she had got a little dog in lieu of him, which she had kept tied by a string to her girdle: as I looked at her dog, she drew him towards her with the string.—“Thou shalt not leave me, Sylvio,” said she.<<
#LaurenceSterne #ASentimentalJourney #BritishLiterature #JosephWright #BritishArt #Art #Literature
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"And in that moment, replied I, most willingly would I say something very civil to you for all these courtesies. Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows it is a part of the temperature; and certainly, added I, if it is the same blood which comes from the heart which descends to the extremes (touching her wrist) I am sure you must have one of the best pulses of any woman in the world.—Feel it, said she, holding out her arm."
