For my birthday, I received another old edition of #TristramShandy! This the Temple Classics edition of 1899, in two vols.

"#TristramShandy is a weak #novel. It is a novel that only weakly consents to participate in the conventions of #genre, that is always about to—and sometimes does—fail to be a novel at all. This is, I want to show, an important quality for a literary work to have—the quality of weak identification, or even total disidentification, with its own type or genre. This effort, rather than being destined for failure, is in fact fundamental for the flourishing of the novel form."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-weak-novel-ives

‘The motly emblem of my work.’ Colourful marbled page from the first edition of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759–67) — these were unique in each copy, representing the element of chance in Sterne’s narrative project. #LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy #books #publishing

‘The motly emblem of my work.’ Colourful marbled page from the first edition of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759–67) — theses were unique in each copy, representing the element of chance in Sterne’s narrative project. #LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy #books #publishing

Backstory: the extraordinary opening sentence of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, born in Clonmel #OTD in 1713 #LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy #books

https://edwardbindloss.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/a-fellow-of-infinite-jest/

@RebeccaShapiro

I may not (do not) sport the tattoos, but I did write this a few years ago.

#TristramShandy

#TristramShandy is my favourite novel.

Time to introduce myself since there are now some others in this breakout room !
I was not long on the other app, but while I was there appreciated the remedy to pandemic loneliness it offered. The interests I hope to share with others here include: #bookhistory, #18thcentury, #romanticism, #novels, #victorian poetry (new obsession), #scrapbooks, #pedagogy , #Clarissa, #TristramShandy.