The Straight Line 2

A second straight line in: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Penguin Classics, 1986.

! !

in: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Oxford World Classics, 2000.

Not urgent here

in: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Oxford World Classics, 2000.

The Plot Lines

in:
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Oxford World's Classics, 2009. Copy at York Central Library.

The Lines of Digressions

in:
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Everyman's Library, 1991 at York Central Library.

Digression #2

in: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Oxford World Classics, 2000.

Digression

"Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;——they are the life, the soul of reading!—take them out of this book, for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;—one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer;—he steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail."
in: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Oxford World Classics, 2000.

Your own fancy

Half erased drawing "paint her to your own mind——as like your mistress as you can——as unlike your wife as your conscience will let you—’tis all one to me——please but your own fancy in it." in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Oxford World Classics, 2000. —B brought this copy back from an Antiquarian booksellers outdoor box in Amsterdam.

"Fetch me the Packaging Tape

—and let me fix that". —might the previous owner of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Volume I-III, T. Cadell. London, 1794 — have said, when the back board of Volume I  — at last — fell of the spine.