Shandy on Air

There is still time for the world — until 24th. april — to listen to the BBC4 Program (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418phf ) where Melvyn Bragg with his guests Judith Hawly, John Mullan and Judith Newbould takes us on vividly digressive tour through Sterne and Shandy. 

The Nose

On Joseph Nollekens Marble bust of Sterne (1766) we see that:

“Nihil me pœnitet hujus nasi,” quoth Pamphagus;——that is—“My nose has been the making of me.”—————“Nec est cur pœniteat,” replies Cocles; that is, “How the duce should such a nose fail?”

* in York

We spend some days in York on our expedition to Coxwold, taking a stroll on the old defensing wall, that surrounds the city of York, we found a very nice and recognisable engraving in the pavement: *

http://forlagetasterisk.blogspot.dk/

Reading Sterne

Reading: "Alas, poor YORICK!" in Tristram Shandys levned og meninger 1. danish ed. (Borgen, 1976) at Sternes grave at the churchyard in Coxwold. Actually, it is not the whole corpse of Sterne that is resting here; in 1969 was here reburied, what "as sure as it could be" is Sternes scull and some assorted bones.

Bleached by the sun

A nice copy of Laurence Sterne A Political Romance facsimile edition by Scolar Press, 1971,

with sun bleached backcover. The initials BAM and Shandy Hall 75 written in pencil on the halftitle page. 

A Sentimental Journey en miniature

Lilliput version of A Sentimental Journey, De Prado Publishers (Madrid, 2013) 586 pg. Purchased at the Shandy Hall's bookstore in Coxwold. Ideal for travellers.