Up and Reading…

Well, Jon your last post piqued my interest, and I have once again returned to Shandy Hall rejoined Toby, Papa Shandy, Trim and the gang as we wait for the eventual birth of our intrepid narrator. I can hardly wait to see what happens next.

[Dare I venture a prediction? Not much. Although I have to admit I was on the edge of my seat for the pulse-pounding door hinge episode. I thought about taking a little break after that...just to catch my breath.]

I did find it particularly funny though when mid-way through volume 3 Tristram apologizes to the reader for taking them on a tangent. Why now, Tristram? Why not 150 pages and hours of my life ago when your apology may have actually meant something to me.

Now, on to non-Shandy related items:

I feel like you are calling into question the journalistic integrity of The Jeffryes Family Post-Intelligencer Bugle Tribune. I will have you know that Eustace Van Culturingham IV was always fair in his reviews. (Which is more than I can say for your alter ego, part time German shipping magnate, part-time poetry critic Hansel von Wordenrhyme.)

I am going to have a go at finishing Volume 3 tonight. Maybe I will actually have something insightful to say in the near future. (Although, that’s probably as likely as Tristram Shandy actually coming to the point of the story.)

Until later.

Justin