#tristramshandy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tristramshandy, aggregated by home.social.
-
CW: long first sentences from Tristram Shandy
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing; -- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind; -- and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:-- Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-- I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me."
-- #FirstSentences of *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Started this on the 2nd, for a very slow fall read. #ReadingNotes will go here.
-
CW: long first sentences from Tristram Shandy
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing; -- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind; -- and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:-- Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-- I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me."
-- #FirstSentences of *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Started this on the 2nd, for a very slow fall read. #ReadingNotes will go here.
-
CW: long first sentences from Tristram Shandy
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing; -- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind; -- and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:-- Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-- I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me."
-- #FirstSentences of *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Started this on the 2nd, for a very slow fall read. #ReadingNotes will go here.
-
CW: long first sentences from Tristram Shandy
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing; -- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind; -- and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:-- Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-- I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me."
-- #FirstSentences of *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Started this on the 2nd, for a very slow fall read. #ReadingNotes will go here.
-
CW: long first sentences from Tristram Shandy
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing; -- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind; -- and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:-- Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-- I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me."
-- #FirstSentences of *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Started this on the 2nd, for a very slow fall read. #ReadingNotes will go here.
-
’TIS a pity, cried my father one winter’s night, after a three hours painful translation of Slawkenbergius——’tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother’s threadpaper into the book for a mark, as he spoke——that truth, brother Toby, should shut herself up in such impregnable fastnesses, and be so obstinate as not to surrender herself sometimes up upon the closest siege.——
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Vol II, ch XXXIV)
#LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm#chap02
-
’TIS a pity, cried my father one winter’s night, after a three hours painful translation of Slawkenbergius——’tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother’s threadpaper into the book for a mark, as he spoke——that truth, brother Toby, should shut herself up in such impregnable fastnesses, and be so obstinate as not to surrender herself sometimes up upon the closest siege.——
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Vol II, ch XXXIV)
#LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm#chap02
-
’TIS a pity, cried my father one winter’s night, after a three hours painful translation of Slawkenbergius——’tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother’s threadpaper into the book for a mark, as he spoke——that truth, brother Toby, should shut herself up in such impregnable fastnesses, and be so obstinate as not to surrender herself sometimes up upon the closest siege.——
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Vol II, ch XXXIV)
#LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm#chap02
-
’TIS a pity, cried my father one winter’s night, after a three hours painful translation of Slawkenbergius——’tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother’s threadpaper into the book for a mark, as he spoke——that truth, brother Toby, should shut herself up in such impregnable fastnesses, and be so obstinate as not to surrender herself sometimes up upon the closest siege.——
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Vol II, ch XXXIV)
#LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm#chap02
-
’TIS a pity, cried my father one winter’s night, after a three hours painful translation of Slawkenbergius——’tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother’s threadpaper into the book for a mark, as he spoke——that truth, brother Toby, should shut herself up in such impregnable fastnesses, and be so obstinate as not to surrender herself sometimes up upon the closest siege.——
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Vol II, ch XXXIV)
#LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm#chap02
-
Tristram Shandy … Unglücksrabe oder Von der Bahre bis zur Wiege – Von Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sternes „Tristram Shandy“ revolutionierte den Roman: Ein Werk voller Abschweifungen, Wortspiele und radikaler Erzählexperimente. Statt einer geordneten Biografie bietet es ein labyrinthisches Spiel mit Form und Lesererwartung.
Der Ich-Erzähler Tristram will sein Leben schildern – doch er wird ständig unterbrochen, etwa durch seinen pedantischen Vater Walter oder den kriegsbesessenen Onkel Toby. Mit schwarzen Seiten, fehlenden Kapiteln und verspäteten Vorworten brach Sterne alle Konventionen. Goethe pries ihn als „schönsten Geist“, Nietzsche als „freiesten Schriftsteller“. Lessing wollte für ein weiteres Buch von Sterne sogar “fünf Jahre seines Lebens” opfern.
#bucher #horspiel #laurenceSterne #literatur #roman #swrKultur #tristramShandy
-
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
-
Barry Lyndon is a bit too Tristram Shandy for me (which I read recently). I think I'll have to spread out how often I read such books.
I enjoy them, but an incorrigible, unreliable narrator shouting "Tally-Ho, fellow dudes, let's romp" in your face every ten minutes can be tiring. There's an optimal number of Spring Breaks in a year, and especially for the middle aged that's a low number.
I didn't get that feeling from Moll Flanders, but I might have been distracted by the tiring weird capitalisation and punctuation.
-
Barry Lyndon is a bit too Tristram Shandy for me (which I read recently). I think I'll have to spread out how often I read such books.
I enjoy them, but an incorrigible, unreliable narrator shouting "Tally-Ho, fellow dudes, let's romp" in your face every ten minutes can be tiring. There's an optimal number of Spring Breaks in a year, and especially for the middle aged that's a low number.
I didn't get that feeling from Moll Flanders, but I might have been distracted by the tiring weird capitalisation and punctuation.
-
Ich hab die über 800 Seiten des #TristramShandy von #LaurenceSterne ja damals zwischen 24. Dezember 1995 und Ende Januar 1996 quasi weggeatmet – um dann 2 Monate Pause zu machen, weil ich mit dem einzigen abschweifungsfrei erzähltem „Kapitel“ nichts anfangen konnte,¹ aber zeitgenössische Lesys mussten mit einem Veröffentlichungszeitraum von 1759 bis 1767 klarkommen!
—
¹ Endspurt dann 31.3.-5.4.1996 -
Ich hab die über 800 Seiten des #TristramShandy von #LaurenceSterne ja damals zwischen 24. Dezember 1995 und Ende Januar 1996 quasi weggeatmet – um dann 2 Monate Pause zu machen, weil ich mit dem einzigen abschweifungsfrei erzähltem „Kapitel“ nichts anfangen konnte,¹ aber zeitgenössische Lesys mussten mit einem Veröffentlichungszeitraum von 1759 bis 1767 klarkommen!
—
¹ Endspurt dann 31.3.-5.4.1996 -
Ich hab die über 800 Seiten des #TristramShandy von #LaurenceSterne ja damals zwischen 24. Dezember 1995 und Ende Januar 1996 quasi weggeatmet – um dann 2 Monate Pause zu machen, weil ich mit dem einzigen abschweifungsfrei erzähltem „Kapitel“ nichts anfangen konnte,¹ aber zeitgenössische Lesys mussten mit einem Veröffentlichungszeitraum von 1759 bis 1767 klarkommen!
—
¹ Endspurt dann 31.3.-5.4.1996 -
Ich hab die über 800 Seiten des #TristramShandy von #LaurenceSterne ja damals zwischen 24. Dezember 1995 und Ende Januar 1996 quasi weggeatmet – um dann 2 Monate Pause zu machen, weil ich mit dem einzigen abschweifungsfrei erzähltem „Kapitel“ nichts anfangen konnte,¹ aber zeitgenössische Lesys mussten mit einem Veröffentlichungszeitraum von 1759 bis 1767 klarkommen!
—
¹ Endspurt dann 31.3.-5.4.1996 -
Gibt es eigentlich eine Korrelation, ob #TristramShandy¹ von #LaurenceSterne vor allem von ADHS-lys geschätzt wird?
—
¹ »Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman«, Org englisch »The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman« -
Gibt es eigentlich eine Korrelation, ob #TristramShandy¹ von #LaurenceSterne vor allem von ADHS-lys geschätzt wird?
—
¹ »Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman«, Org englisch »The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman« -
Gibt es eigentlich eine Korrelation, ob #TristramShandy¹ von #LaurenceSterne vor allem von ADHS-lys geschätzt wird?
—
¹ »Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman«, Org englisch »The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman« -
Gibt es eigentlich eine Korrelation, ob #TristramShandy¹ von #LaurenceSterne vor allem von ADHS-lys geschätzt wird?
—
¹ »Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman«, Org englisch »The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman« -
“As it says in the film of #TristramShandy, it’s a #post-modern #novel “before there was any #modernism to be post about.” The #movie is amazing, by the way. It’s directed by #Michael Winterbottom” fivebooks.com/best-books/1... #books #novels #18thCenturyNovels
The Best 18th-Century Novels -
“As it says in the film of #TristramShandy, it’s a #post-modern #novel “before there was any #modernism to be post about.” The #movie is amazing, by the way. It’s directed by #Michael Winterbottom” fivebooks.com/best-books/1... #books #novels #18thCenturyNovels
The Best 18th-Century Novels -
“As it says in the film of #TristramShandy, it’s a #post-modern #novel “before there was any #modernism to be post about.” The #movie is amazing, by the way. It’s directed by #Michael Winterbottom” fivebooks.com/best-books/1... #books #novels #18thCenturyNovels
The Best 18th-Century Novels -
“As it says in the film of #TristramShandy, it’s a #post-modern #novel “before there was any #modernism to be post about.” The #movie is amazing, by the way. It’s directed by #Michael Winterbottom” fivebooks.com/best-books/1... #books #novels #18thCenturyNovels
The Best 18th-Century Novels -
Y'all, "Tristram Shandy" is a fupping *hoot*! I need some British actor to memorize all 600 pages and pull a one-person "Nicholas Nickleby." #booksky #theatre #TristramShandy
-
Y'all, "Tristram Shandy" is a fupping *hoot*! I need some British actor to memorize all 600 pages and pull a one-person "Nicholas Nickleby." #booksky #theatre #TristramShandy
-
Y'all, "Tristram Shandy" is a fupping *hoot*! I need some British actor to memorize all 600 pages and pull a one-person "Nicholas Nickleby." #booksky #theatre #TristramShandy
-
Y'all, "Tristram Shandy" is a fupping *hoot*! I need some British actor to memorize all 600 pages and pull a one-person "Nicholas Nickleby." #booksky #theatre #TristramShandy
-
Y'all, "Tristram Shandy" is a fupping *hoot*! I need some British actor to memorize all 600 pages and pull a one-person "Nicholas Nickleby." #booksky #theatre #TristramShandy
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 28
"A tide of little evils and distresses"
Watching his father in his mind beset by microscopic torments and fears, every one of them produced by his own pseudoscientific superstitions, Tristram begins to observe his own melancholic behaviors--the sad slow dipping of his pen and the abatement of his own pulse. Vol III is--I think--the most challenging part of the book for this reason; its slow pulse attempts to put off doom.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 28
"A tide of little evils and distresses"
Watching his father in his mind beset by microscopic torments and fears, every one of them produced by his own pseudoscientific superstitions, Tristram begins to observe his own melancholic behaviors--the sad slow dipping of his pen and the abatement of his own pulse. Vol III is--I think--the most challenging part of the book for this reason; its slow pulse attempts to put off doom.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 28
"A tide of little evils and distresses"
Watching his father in his mind beset by microscopic torments and fears, every one of them produced by his own pseudoscientific superstitions, Tristram begins to observe his own melancholic behaviors--the sad slow dipping of his pen and the abatement of his own pulse. Vol III is--I think--the most challenging part of the book for this reason; its slow pulse attempts to put off doom.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 28
"A tide of little evils and distresses"
Watching his father in his mind beset by microscopic torments and fears, every one of them produced by his own pseudoscientific superstitions, Tristram begins to observe his own melancholic behaviors--the sad slow dipping of his pen and the abatement of his own pulse. Vol III is--I think--the most challenging part of the book for this reason; its slow pulse attempts to put off doom.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 28
"A tide of little evils and distresses"
Watching his father in his mind beset by microscopic torments and fears, every one of them produced by his own pseudoscientific superstitions, Tristram begins to observe his own melancholic behaviors--the sad slow dipping of his pen and the abatement of his own pulse. Vol III is--I think--the most challenging part of the book for this reason; its slow pulse attempts to put off doom.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 27
"crush'd his nose, Susannah says, as flat as a pancake"
With all the setup about names and pineal glands ominously whirling around in our expectations for young Tristram, nothing yet has been said about noses, which will be one of the most potent and penetrating signifiers in the text. To have a crushed nose, and need a bridge to lift it up, bodes so ill for the baby that Walter silently wanders off to oomph on his bed.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 27
"crush'd his nose, Susannah says, as flat as a pancake"
With all the setup about names and pineal glands ominously whirling around in our expectations for young Tristram, nothing yet has been said about noses, which will be one of the most potent and penetrating signifiers in the text. To have a crushed nose, and need a bridge to lift it up, bodes so ill for the baby that Walter silently wanders off to oomph on his bed.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 27
"crush'd his nose, Susannah says, as flat as a pancake"
With all the setup about names and pineal glands ominously whirling around in our expectations for young Tristram, nothing yet has been said about noses, which will be one of the most potent and penetrating signifiers in the text. To have a crushed nose, and need a bridge to lift it up, bodes so ill for the baby that Walter silently wanders off to oomph on his bed.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 27
"crush'd his nose, Susannah says, as flat as a pancake"
With all the setup about names and pineal glands ominously whirling around in our expectations for young Tristram, nothing yet has been said about noses, which will be one of the most potent and penetrating signifiers in the text. To have a crushed nose, and need a bridge to lift it up, bodes so ill for the baby that Walter silently wanders off to oomph on his bed.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 27
"crush'd his nose, Susannah says, as flat as a pancake"
With all the setup about names and pineal glands ominously whirling around in our expectations for young Tristram, nothing yet has been said about noses, which will be one of the most potent and penetrating signifiers in the text. To have a crushed nose, and need a bridge to lift it up, bodes so ill for the baby that Walter silently wanders off to oomph on his bed.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 16
"naturally as soft as the pap of an apple"
Somehow I missed this chapter, and in my Shandean way, I allow myself to return to it. How could I have missed Toby getting his knuckles crushed to a jelly by Slop's hideous forceps? This is a crucial passage that reveals to Walter that his trust in the man-midwife may be tragically misplaced.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 16
"naturally as soft as the pap of an apple"
Somehow I missed this chapter, and in my Shandean way, I allow myself to return to it. How could I have missed Toby getting his knuckles crushed to a jelly by Slop's hideous forceps? This is a crucial passage that reveals to Walter that his trust in the man-midwife may be tragically misplaced.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 16
"naturally as soft as the pap of an apple"
Somehow I missed this chapter, and in my Shandean way, I allow myself to return to it. How could I have missed Toby getting his knuckles crushed to a jelly by Slop's hideous forceps? This is a crucial passage that reveals to Walter that his trust in the man-midwife may be tragically misplaced.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 16
"naturally as soft as the pap of an apple"
Somehow I missed this chapter, and in my Shandean way, I allow myself to return to it. How could I have missed Toby getting his knuckles crushed to a jelly by Slop's hideous forceps? This is a crucial passage that reveals to Walter that his trust in the man-midwife may be tragically misplaced.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 16
"naturally as soft as the pap of an apple"
Somehow I missed this chapter, and in my Shandean way, I allow myself to return to it. How could I have missed Toby getting his knuckles crushed to a jelly by Slop's hideous forceps? This is a crucial passage that reveals to Walter that his trust in the man-midwife may be tragically misplaced.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 26
"Had my uncle Toby's head been a Savoyard's box"
Toby hears that Slop is making a bridge and, imagining it is related to his own bridge repair problem, thanks him for doing so. Tristram imagines his father seeing the train of associations that resulted in this action as clearly as if looking into a diorama at a peep show, with every thought acted out for him. (How I long to be able to do this!)
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 26
"Had my uncle Toby's head been a Savoyard's box"
Toby hears that Slop is making a bridge and, imagining it is related to his own bridge repair problem, thanks him for doing so. Tristram imagines his father seeing the train of associations that resulted in this action as clearly as if looking into a diorama at a peep show, with every thought acted out for him. (How I long to be able to do this!)
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 26
"Had my uncle Toby's head been a Savoyard's box"
Toby hears that Slop is making a bridge and, imagining it is related to his own bridge repair problem, thanks him for doing so. Tristram imagines his father seeing the train of associations that resulted in this action as clearly as if looking into a diorama at a peep show, with every thought acted out for him. (How I long to be able to do this!)
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 26
"Had my uncle Toby's head been a Savoyard's box"
Toby hears that Slop is making a bridge and, imagining it is related to his own bridge repair problem, thanks him for doing so. Tristram imagines his father seeing the train of associations that resulted in this action as clearly as if looking into a diorama at a peep show, with every thought acted out for him. (How I long to be able to do this!)
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 26
"Had my uncle Toby's head been a Savoyard's box"
Toby hears that Slop is making a bridge and, imagining it is related to his own bridge repair problem, thanks him for doing so. Tristram imagines his father seeing the train of associations that resulted in this action as clearly as if looking into a diorama at a peep show, with every thought acted out for him. (How I long to be able to do this!)
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 25
"it would but perpetuate the memory of the corporal's misfortune"
In deciding how to remake the bridge, Toby begins by considering whether in the future there would be a need for an Italian bridge, as threats of war emerge in that region, but Walter talks him into a Flanders-style one. But how should it function? turning open? standing up straight? thrusting forward? All suddenly have sexual connotations because of how the bridge fell.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 25
"it would but perpetuate the memory of the corporal's misfortune"
In deciding how to remake the bridge, Toby begins by considering whether in the future there would be a need for an Italian bridge, as threats of war emerge in that region, but Walter talks him into a Flanders-style one. But how should it function? turning open? standing up straight? thrusting forward? All suddenly have sexual connotations because of how the bridge fell.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 25
"it would but perpetuate the memory of the corporal's misfortune"
In deciding how to remake the bridge, Toby begins by considering whether in the future there would be a need for an Italian bridge, as threats of war emerge in that region, but Walter talks him into a Flanders-style one. But how should it function? turning open? standing up straight? thrusting forward? All suddenly have sexual connotations because of how the bridge fell.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 25
"it would but perpetuate the memory of the corporal's misfortune"
In deciding how to remake the bridge, Toby begins by considering whether in the future there would be a need for an Italian bridge, as threats of war emerge in that region, but Walter talks him into a Flanders-style one. But how should it function? turning open? standing up straight? thrusting forward? All suddenly have sexual connotations because of how the bridge fell.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 25
"it would but perpetuate the memory of the corporal's misfortune"
In deciding how to remake the bridge, Toby begins by considering whether in the future there would be a need for an Italian bridge, as threats of war emerge in that region, but Walter talks him into a Flanders-style one. But how should it function? turning open? standing up straight? thrusting forward? All suddenly have sexual connotations because of how the bridge fell.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 24
"But what are these, he would say, to the destructive machinery of Corporal Trim?"
We learn that, although Toby is sexually modest and abruptly ended his courtship of Mrs Wadman, Trim did not end his courtship of Bridget, Mrs Wadman's maid. In fact, he brought her into the bowling green one night for a private rendez-vous that ended in the total destruction of a drawbridge. Walter teases Toby about this event to embarrass and confuse him.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 24
"But what are these, he would say, to the destructive machinery of Corporal Trim?"
We learn that, although Toby is sexually modest and abruptly ended his courtship of Mrs Wadman, Trim did not end his courtship of Bridget, Mrs Wadman's maid. In fact, he brought her into the bowling green one night for a private rendez-vous that ended in the total destruction of a drawbridge. Walter teases Toby about this event to embarrass and confuse him.
-
CW: Tristram Shandy Vol. III Ch. 24
"But what are these, he would say, to the destructive machinery of Corporal Trim?"
We learn that, although Toby is sexually modest and abruptly ended his courtship of Mrs Wadman, Trim did not end his courtship of Bridget, Mrs Wadman's maid. In fact, he brought her into the bowling green one night for a private rendez-vous that ended in the total destruction of a drawbridge. Walter teases Toby about this event to embarrass and confuse him.
