A man’s question of whether these objects can be “dissolved” leads another man to bite his wife’s pincushion and fill his mouth with bran. A definition of these objects as just these objects “nothing more, or less” follows (15[1])a long preamble in which a novel’s narrator rebukes philosophy for using too many definitions. A Neo-Latin treatise on (-5[1])these objects includes a tale about Diego, (-5[1])a visitor to a “Promontory” of them, who possesses one that causes a frenzy among the (*) nuns of Strasburg. (10[1])A man obsessed with these objects (10[1])pores over discussions (10[1])of them by Bruscambille, Erasmus, and Hafen Slawkenbergius. (10[2]-5[1])The protagonist’s father (-5[1])Walter, (-5[1])whose “hobby-horse” (10[2])involves a belief that these objects should be large, is upset (10[1])when Dr. Slop crushes one (-5[1])belonging (10[1])to the protagonist (10[1])with a forceps. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Tristram Shandy is born with a shortened form of what body part? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])