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    Excerpt: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy

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    This excerpt is from Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy. It describes a dilemma the narrator Tristram faces in telling the story - he wants to explain how his Uncle Toby made a mistake, but doing so would require telling another story out of place. Tristram asks the "powers" that guide storytelling to help him decide which of the three paths or stories he should take to continue his narrative without disruption or anticipation of future events.

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    This excerpt is from Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy. It describes a dilemma the narrator Tristram faces in telling the story - he wants to explain how his Uncle Toby made a mistake, but doing so would require telling another story out of place. Tristram asks the "powers" that guide storytelling to help him decide which of the three paths or stories he should take to continue his narrative without disruption or anticipation of future events.

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    Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy

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    . . . to understand how my Uncle Toby could mistake the bridge - I fear I must give you an exact
    account of the road which led to it; - or to drop my metaphor, (for there is nothing more dishonest in
    an historian than the use of one,) - in order to conceive the probability of this error in my Uncle Toby
    aright, I must give you some account of an adventure of Trim’s, though much against my will. I say
    much against my will, only because the story, in one sense, is certainly out of its place here; for by
    right it should come in, either among the anecdotes of my uncle Toby’s amours with widow
    Wadman, in which Corporal Trim was no mean actor, - or else in the middle of his and my uncle
    Toby’s campaigns on the bowling-green, - for it will do very well in either place; but then if I reserve
    it for either of those parts of my story, - I ruin the story I’m upon; - and if I tell it here - I anticipate
    matters, and ruin it there. - What would your worships have me to do in this case? - Tell it, Mr.
    Shandy, by all means. - You are a fool, Tristram, if you do.

    O ye POWERS! (for powers ye are, and great ones too) - which enable mortal man to tell a story
    worth hearing - that kindly shew him, where he is to begin it - what he is to put into it - and what he
    is to leave out - how much of it he is to cast into the shade, - and whereabouts he is to throw his
    light! - Ye, who preside over this vast empire of biographical freebooters, and see how many scrapes
    and plunges your subjects hourly fall into; - will you do one thing?

    I beg and beseech you (in case you will do nothing better for us) that wherever in any part of your
    dominions it so falls out, that three several roads meet in one point, as they have done just here -
    that at least you set up a guide-post in the centre of them, in mere charity to direct an uncertain
    devil which of the three he is to take.

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