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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Book 2, Chapter 4

By Laurence Sterne

Book 2, Chapter 4

Good 'ole Toby finally has his hobby-horse. Tristram explains why he stopped the last chapter in the middle of a story: he had written something so great that anything else would have been boring.
At the end of the third year, Toby gets fed up with projectiles and starts studying fortification. His wound also improves, and he chafes under his confinement because …