M&D little dinky spoiler [364]

[Paul York]

*****a you-know-what comin' up*****
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For what it's worth, I was more than pleased to stumble on a nod towards 
Sterne's _Tristam Shandy_ on pg. 364:  "Mr. Knockwood, the landlord, a 
sort of trans-Elemental Uncle Toby, spends hours every day not with 
Earth Fortifications, but studying rather the passage of Water across 
his land...."
	I just like the idea of a contemporary writer who challenges 
prevailing novelistic conventions (conventions that have been 
conventions for so long that people sometimes forget that they are for 
the most part an arbitrary framework around which to build a piece of 
fiction) looking back towards a writer of the 18th Century who had fun 
with these same conventions when they were new enough so as to be 
unquestionably seen as that (an arbitrary etc.).
	Paul