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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Book 7, Chapter 1

By Laurence Sterne

Book 7, Chapter 1

Tristram recalls that he said he'd write two books a year, and that he'd go for forty years—as long as he kept his health. And he's been pretty cheerful about it, too, even when he almost died.
Death came for him at exactly the moment he was in the middle of a story (a really dirty one, too. Don't think about it). He fled to France to regain his health.