Monday, February 4, 2019

Paris and Manhattan

Tristram in Paris:


Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 7 (1765).

The Manhattan equivalent of the cook’s shop and barber: Duane Reade and Starbucks.

Also from Sterne
Letters for all occasions : Yorick, distracted : Yorick, translating : Yorick, soulful : Digressions : Uncle Toby and the fly : Heat and knowledge : “A North-west passage to the intellectual world”

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