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 a long preamble in which a novel’s narrator rebukes philosophy for using too many definitions. A Neo-Latin treatise on these objects includes a tale about Diego, a visitor to a “Promontory” of them, who possesses one that causes a frenzy among the (*) nuns of Strasburg. A man obsessed with these objects pores over discussions of them by Bruscambille, Erasmus, and Hafen Slawkenbergius. The protagonist’s father Walter, whose “hobby-horse” involves a belief that these objects should be large, is upset when Dr. Slop crushes one (-5[1])belonging to the protagonist (10[1])with a forceps. For 10 points, Tristram Shandy is born with a shortened form of what body part? ■END■ (10[1])