Lisa Dal Monte’s Reviews > The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy > Status Update

E su questa inattesa e francamente surreale dichiarazione circa il cazzo dello zio Toby io penso proprio di potermene andare a dormire e lasciare la vedova Wadman a vedersela in autonomia. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

"--I have left Trim my bowling-green, cried my uncle Toby--My father smiled--I have left him moreover a pension, continued my uncle Toby--My father looked grave."

Noses that are definitely absolutely just noses and do not at all imply discussion of other appendages whatsoever, or, methinks the author doth protest too much 👀

Author's preface? Now? I am baffled and perplexed and thoroughly enjoying myself.

[...] Obadiah's was a mix'd case, -- mark, sirs, -- I say, a mix'd case; for it was obstetrical,-- scrip-tical,-- squirtical, papistical,-- and as far as the coach-horse was concerned in it,-- cabball-istical-- and only partly musical;

"I set no small store by myself upon this very account, that my reader has never yet been able to guess at any thing. And in this, Sir, I am of so nice and singular a humour, that if I thought you was able to form the least judgment or probable conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page,--I would tear it out of my book."