I think we have a winner. I haven't read Tristram Shandy, but the wikipedia description makes me want to (modulo apparent extreme length)
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I cannot ignore this chance to share this piece that looks at Google Books through the lens of Google looking at
"Tristram Shandy":
Duguid's "Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books" (2007)
keywords: quality assurance, patricide
c.f.: handoff
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/
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Adam Phillips’ recent and taut (110 small pages) “Attention Seeking” uses excerpts from TS (among other old and new writing) to excellent effect. In passing he mentions Marion Milner’s idea of ‘narrow’ and ‘wide angle’ attention, surely one of the subliminal gifts of our media.
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You might enjoy Rowson’s graphic novel adaptation:
slate.com/culture/2016/0
(I also enjoyed listening to the audio book edition more at first - and once almost drove off the road laughing)
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