From Tristram Shandy, Volume VI, Chapter XL Laurence Sterne
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Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759-1767) was the first perfect realization of the novel as the “art
of digression.” We recommend that this passage supplant and suppress
all existing creative writing textbooks.
I am now beginning
to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegitable diet, with a
few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on
with my uncle Toby’s story, and my own, in a tolerable straight line. Now,
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