"The story of 'A COCK and a BULL ... And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'".
Counterpoint at Standpoint Magazine.
"Tristram Shandy is a 'book of books'. Sterne’s imagination shapes all manner of sources into an idiosyncratic encyclopaedia dealing, among other things, with time, chance, hot chestnuts, misguided learning, midwifery, names, wounds, fortification, love, the importance of putting your breeches on efficiently, procrastination, loyalty, impotence, door hinges—and noses: 'by the word Nose . . . I mean a Nose, and nothing more, or less'."
See Sterne, Tristram Shandy, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 36.
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