Question

In this book, a footnote to the word “foetus” consists of French text excerpted from the fictional study “Les enfants célèbres.” A chapter in this book opens with five story diagrams drawn with the “help of a vegetable diet.” This book contains a vicious Latin excommunication with alternate word endings printed between lines, one of many sections with “mistranslated” bilingual text presented en face. The first editions of this book contained a (*) marbled page made up of swirling colors, (10[1])unique for each copy. Early editions of this book represent a death by printing two pages blacked out with ink. This novel, which uses thousands of dashes of varying length for parentheticals, includes a discussion of private obsessions called “HOBBY-HORSES.” For 10 points, Doctor Slop and Uncle Toby appear in what digressive novel by Laurence Sterne? ■END■

ANSWER: Tristram Shandy [or The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]
<Henry Atkins, British Literature>
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Jordan BrownsteinThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host ClubThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub7810

Summary

2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y1100%0%0%78.00