November 03, 2004

The Death Page. Laurence Sterne's 1760 novel Tristram Shandy broke new ground in a number of ways, notably by using a page of solid black to indicate the death of Yorick. Posted today for no particular reason.

Any connection to preliminary election results is entirely imaginary and offendingly presumptuous.

posted by scartol 20 years ago
  • I <3 Tristram Shandy. That's some funny shit. Maybe I should re-read that to pull me out of my funk and show me that people were just as ridiculous in the past as they are now, and things did get better.
  • Read all of Sterne, o readers. Because it's all good.
  • no connection at all
  • i feel a connection
  • Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. -- Laurence Sterne