In the "Alas, poor Yorick!" sense.
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Dude, it's Shandean!
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It took me about thirty seconds to realize...
...nice, TMK!
I can always count on you to come up with the best obscure references -- even my dear uncle Toby had no idea what you were talking about!
(God, but I LOVED that book! Pure metagenius before its time!)
I can always count on you to come up with the best obscure references -- even my dear uncle Toby had no idea what you were talking about!
(God, but I LOVED that book! Pure metagenius before its time!)
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You know, I was thinking of that as soon as I posted it... "Dude, if Damonk doesn't know Sterne, he really should." the similarities between <i>Tristram Shandy</i> and <i>Framed</i> are striking. Except that in Sterne's case, the new literary form he's exploring the boundaries of is the novel and not the webcomic.
(EDIT: Stupid keyboard.)
(EDIT: Stupid keyboard.)
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Yeah, of COURSE I know the work! I had a few profs that tried to teach it (and failed), but then I had this one great prof who used it for a study of Don Quixote's influence on the English Novels, and that was GREAT!
It's a really dense read, tho, and not everyone can plough through it.
But yeah oh yeah, I've ALWAYS loved his work, and should get off my arse and read the few other novels he churned out!
At the end of the day, tho, it REALLY cheers me up to be compared to such a mindblowing piece of lit! Thanks, TMK!
It's a really dense read, tho, and not everyone can plough through it.
But yeah oh yeah, I've ALWAYS loved his work, and should get off my arse and read the few other novels he churned out!
At the end of the day, tho, it REALLY cheers me up to be compared to such a mindblowing piece of lit! Thanks, TMK!
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Really, his only other substantial work was the unfinished "Sentimental Journey through France and Italy", which is interesting primarily because of its associations with the "sentimental" (Sterne coined the word, which back then had none of the negative connotations it now possesses) movement in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century literature (largely German; Heinrich Heine was especially influenced by Sterne). I've read it; it's good, but it certainly feels unfinished. It goes nowhere (and not in the interesting way Shandy does.)
He also wrote the "Sermons of Parson Yorick" (which are, I believe, simply a bunch of sermons he delivered and subsequently put in a book), a short piece called "A Political Romance, or the History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat", a <i>roman a clef</i> which was banned shortly after its first appearance (not sure if it survives today), and some letters or something. Unfortunately, he's one of those guys who didn't start writing until he was almost 50 years old, and died ten years later.
He also wrote the "Sermons of Parson Yorick" (which are, I believe, simply a bunch of sermons he delivered and subsequently put in a book), a short piece called "A Political Romance, or the History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat", a <i>roman a clef</i> which was banned shortly after its first appearance (not sure if it survives today), and some letters or something. Unfortunately, he's one of those guys who didn't start writing until he was almost 50 years old, and died ten years later.