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reaching out across time to some dude reading this in 1767 as we both go 'wait what'

#uncle toby has a hot date #shandyposting #tristram shandy

Are not the necessary causes of misery in this life enow, but he must add voluntary ones to his stock of sorrow;—struggle against evils which cannot be avoided, and submit to others, which a tenth part of the trouble they create him would remove from his heart for ever?

This is about a squeaky door hinge.

#shandyposting #tristram shandy #public domain books #the door hinge lament is actually a whole chapter lmao

Me every time I see "nice" used to mean "exact or precise":

#shandyposting #this came right after the bit about grannyfucking #which i was not expecting to see! but there it was #the joke was that the father says “how dare you sleep with my mother”#and the son replies #“well why not? you slept with mine”#and also after an extended slapstick bit about a hot chestnut falling on a guys crotch #thats classic literature for you

Laurence Sterne would have loved RPN calculators.

#shandyposting #tristram shandy #hp calculators #this post's audience is about three people and i tag this with the hope they find it because i am RIGHT #rpn notation

Can't believe that a guy called Fortunio Licetus, who was born prematurely but saved by an incubator (in the 1500s!) and wrote a book titled Gonopsychanthropologia, is real. How is that more real than a guy who wrote a book about noses.

#shandyposting #i pegged nose guy as not real and was sure this guy was also not real but???#he was real??#he was friends with galileo because he lent him money?

Interviewer: How does the Heisenberg Compensator work? Star Trek writer: Very well, thank you.

But pray, Dr. Slop, quoth my father, interrupting my uncle (tho’ not without begging pardon for it at the same time) upon what principles was this self-same chariot set a-going? Upon very pretty principles to be sure, replied Dr. Slop. —Tristram Shandy, 1759

#cinematic parallels #jokes that you already knew were old but were apparently even older than that #shandyposting #heck i'll throw this one in the main tag #tristram shandy

I am frequently reminded that this is not the best format to read Tristram Shandy.

#this is supposed to be a full marbled page #shandyposting

Homestuck prepared me for Tristram Shandy.

#oh it's chapter [x] and they havent even [y] yet? i have been there #i am aware of the nature of long digressions i know their flavor #shandyposting

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