Slop while waiting for the birth?) We will never find out...

*** p.147 ***

Valter believes that Tristram is harmed from 3/4 (because of his birth, nose and name) but believes that he can save at least 1/4 of his personality by writing a book called Tristramopedia. The book contains advises and information about how to educate and elevate Tristram.

*** p.317 ***

While reading the book , we identify the person of Tristram Shandy and, step by step, we run away with the idea that his birth was not as disastrous as his father thought. We find Tristram a bit strange but very intelligent, with great skills in writing and therefore not touched by the fact that – according to his father - he was born “wrongly”, has not a perfect nose and has an inconvenient name. I am sure that his father finds Tristram a very great person but how is he dealing with the fact that in spite of his theories, intellectually, Tristram is not harmed? There are three possibilities:
1) father’s theories fall down;
2) he supposes that his son is an exception to the rule;
3) he does not think anything.


(Uvedené strany pre ilustráciu práce citátmi sú aktuálne pre knihu vydanú vydavateľstvom Odeon, Praha 1971 – druhé, opravené vydanie.).