Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

[ann klefstad]

Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ wrote:

I might suggest also the lecture of "a Modest Proposal", an actual speech of
Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by
proposing various way of cooking babies to fight the lack of food.

That's actually not Sterne, that's Swift, an Irish writer of more razorlike
edge, only like Sterne in his occasional rueful amusement. Mostly he was
enraged, though, not like Sterne at all. I remember how funny I thought his "Ode
to Celia" or somesuch was when I was a kid. Wonderful to have female
embodiedness (in all its forms) acknowledged. "Modest Proposal" is wonderful
controlled rage.

AK