tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7694826345464548226..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Stumbled Into It Without Ambition'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-32601092360476105642013-11-18T08:24:11.502-06:002013-11-18T08:24:11.502-06:00"Wordsworth seems unaware that Lamb had writt..."Wordsworth seems unaware that Lamb had written a novel, Tristram Shandy, starting in 1759, sixteen years before his birth."<br /><br />Sorry -- I don't get this, exactly. Do you mean that Tristram Shandy is the novel Lamb would have, could have, written if he had written one? <br /><br />I don't see it. For one thing, the relationship of each of them to his readers is so different. Lamb coddles them and invites them into his world. Sterne teases them and plays a sort of peek-a-boo. To put it another way: while we're sitting in Lamb's kitchen, we're only looking in through Sterne's windows.Denkof Zwemmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01118582264573609926noreply@blogger.com