Tristam Shandy and Thomas Jefferson

[Dan Conley]

Someone on the list today mentioned Laurence Sterne's "Tristam Shandy."  I
just read in E.M. Halliday's "Understanding Thomas Jefferson" that "Tristam
Shandy" was our third President's favorite non-fiction book.  Jefferson
would be such a wonderful subject for Pynchon -- his surprising taste for
the bawdy, penchant for conspiracies and distaste for moneyed urban America
was right in TP's wheelhouse.