 | Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 298 lehte
...upon this book. I told him, Sir for, in good truth, when a man "> is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going backwards and forwards to for my own part, if I did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1994 - 276 lehte
...storytelling, in conveying a unified impression: "when a man is telling a story in the strange way 1 do mine, he is obliged continually to be going backwards...to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy" (557-8; bk. 6, ch. 33). "Much unexpected business [may] fall out betwixt the reader and myself," Tristram... | |
 | Elizabeth Kraft - 1992 - 238 lehte
...6, we find, he is driven still by the urge for unity—"When a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going...to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy" (2: 557-58)—and the end of the volume finds him resisting the impulse to digress. He refuses to preface... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - 1993 - 294 lehte
...escaping them has had its pleasures too. Telling a story in his strange way he is continually obliged to be going backwards and forwards to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy but he can do it, even as he is tripping over his syntax, and do it well. The machinery of his work... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1996 - 468 lehte
...entirely upon this bookI told him, Sir - for in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going...own part, if I did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal matter starting up, with so many breaks and gaps in it,... | |
 | Martin Middeke - 2002 - 456 lehte
...warnen soll: [W]hen a man is telling a story in the stränge way I do mine, he is obliged cominually to be going backwards and forwards to keep all tight...own part, if I did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal matter starting up, with so many breaks and gaps in it,... | |
 | Susana Onega Jaén, Christian Gutleben - 2004 - 276 lehte
...I told [the Christian reader] — for, in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going...the reader's fancy — which, for my own part, if 1 did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal matter starting... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 2005 - 570 lehte
...continually to be going backwards and forwards to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy—which, for my own part, if I did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal matter starting up, with so many breaks and gaps in it,... | |
 | Scott D. Denham, Mark Richard McCulloh - 2006 - 392 lehte
...Tristram's own storytelling: [ . . . ] in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going...forwards to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy [. . .] and now, you see, I am lost myself! - But 'tis my father's fault; and whenever my brains come... | |
 | Thomas Keymer - 2006 - 298 lehte
...the outside reader because Sterne seems to imply that there is a sense in which all writers are male, "going backwards and forwards to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy" (TS 6.33.557—58), and all readers female. What is a distinctively female reader? According to the... | |
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Sir - for in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going backwards and forwards to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy... 
