As is often the case, the word "Books" is used when they apparently just mean "Novels". Tristram Shandy difficult?! Strange. Would you call Monty Python 'difficult'? It is, however, hilarious, and still seems very modern, despite the first part dating from 1759. The humour is quite Pythonish, but goes further…
遇到斯特恩同好了！还有，在贝尔实验室写了 uucp 的 Mike Lesk 也是个狂热的《项狄传》迷，手里有一本初版。那个全黑的悼念页绝了。早在80年代，Mike 就谈到过为老式活字印刷做字体模拟，以及如何在输出里引入令人赏心悦目的不对称性。是不是……
A fellow Sterne fan! Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition. The funereal page is great. Back in the 80s Mike talked about font emulating for old letterpress and how one could introduce pleasing asymmetries into the output. Is…
I put together a nice PD ebook edition of Tristram Shandy last year for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laurence-sterne/the-life-a... (By nice I mean compatible as best I can with the latest ePub specs, images SVG traced for hi-dpi / dark…
It doesn't explain why it's "distinctively American", only that it's a modern Western belief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism point out, for example, that "A passage of Laurence Sterne's 1767 Tristram Shandy, condemns plagiarism by resorting to plagiarism" At http://listverse.com/2014/09/18/10-of-the-worst-plagiarists-... we read: > "Few men have fallen further in the eyes of their scientific peers during…
…now I also think that it could also be a matter of taste. Rushdie himself quotes Milan Kundera who said: "...that the novel descended from two parents, Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy". The latter is a style of writing where all conventional rules of literature are broken, it's just wildly creative so to speak. Rushdie's Midnights Children and James Joyce's Ulysses fall into this category.…
很多时候大家都这样，嘴上说的是“书”，其实摆明了指的就是“小说”。《项狄传》很难读？！奇怪了。你会觉得巨蟒剧团（Monty Python）“难懂”吗？虽然第一部写于1759年，但它真的爆笑，而且到现在看依然非常现代。它的幽默风格很有巨蟒剧团那味儿，甚至走得更远……
As is often the case, the word "Books" is used when they apparently just mean "Novels". Tristram Shandy difficult?! Strange. Would you call Monty Python 'difficult'? It is, however, hilarious, and still seems very modern, despite the first part dating from 1759. The humour is quite Pythonish, but goes further…
遇到斯特恩同好了！还有，在贝尔实验室写了 uucp 的 Mike Lesk 也是个狂热的《项狄传》迷，手里有一本初版。那个全黑的悼念页绝了。早在80年代，Mike 就谈到过为老式活字印刷做字体模拟，以及如何在输出里引入令人赏心悦目的不对称性。是不是……
A fellow Sterne fan! Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition. The funereal page is great. Back in the 80s Mike talked about font emulating for old letterpress and how one could introduce pleasing asymmetries into the output. Is…
如果你从没读过《三人同舟》或《项狄传》，也可以试试看那两本。
If you’ve never read Three Men in a Boat or Tristram Shandy you might try those too.
我去年为 Standard Ebooks 做了一版很棒的《项狄传》公版电子书：https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laurence-sterne/the-life-a... （我说的“棒”是指尽量兼容最新的 ePub 规范，图片也做了 SVG 矢量描摹，以适配高分屏 / 暗色……
I put together a nice PD ebook edition of Tristram Shandy last year for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laurence-sterne/the-life-a... (By nice I mean compatible as best I can with the latest ePub specs, images SVG traced for hi-dpi / dark…
这并没有解释为什么它是“典型的美国特色”，只说了这是一种现代西方观念。例如维基百科页面 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism 指出，“劳伦斯·斯特恩在 1767 年的《项狄传》中有一段文字，竟然用抄袭的方式来谴责抄袭”。在 http://listverse.com/2014/09/18/10-of-the-worst-plagiarists-... 上我们读到：> “在科学界的同行眼中，很少有人跌得比……更惨
It doesn't explain why it's "distinctively American", only that it's a modern Western belief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism point out, for example, that "A passage of Laurence Sterne's 1767 Tristram Shandy, condemns plagiarism by resorting to plagiarism" At http://listverse.com/2014/09/18/10-of-the-worst-plagiarists-... we read: > "Few men have fallen further in the eyes of their scientific peers during…
……现在我也觉得这可能纯粹是个口味问题。拉什迪自己就引用过米兰·昆德拉的话，昆德拉说：“……小说有两个鼻祖，萨缪尔·理查逊的《克拉丽莎》和劳伦斯·斯特恩的《项狄传》”。后者是一种打破所有传统文学规则的写作风格，可以说就是放飞自我、极具创意。拉什迪的《午夜之子》和詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》就属于这一类。……
…now I also think that it could also be a matter of taste. Rushdie himself quotes Milan Kundera who said: "...that the novel descended from two parents, Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy". The latter is a style of writing where all conventional rules of literature are broken, it's just wildly creative so to speak. Rushdie's Midnights Children and James Joyce's Ulysses fall into this category.…