...conception; and finally the eager and possibly impatient reader is let in on exactly what was going on: "'Pray, my Dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot...exclamation but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time ... 'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'"...

...Sunday night of every month, and his mother who dares to speak as she is on the verge of being wound: Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot...exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time,— Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?...

...held by Tristram (and his father). So what disturbed their concentration? Only this: 'Pray, my ¿ear/ quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' 'Good G**/' cried my father, taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, 'Did ever woman, since creation of the world, interrupt...

...Zeitprobleme: Verzögerungen, Anachronismen und subjektive Zeit in Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot to wind up the dock? — Good G — / cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice...

...before his birth. Just at the crucial moment he was to be conceived, his mother distracts his father. Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot...exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?...

...forma di una domanda importuna. Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you notforgot to wind up thè clock? - Good G - ! cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at thè same time, - Did ever woman, since thè creation ofthe world, interrupt a man with such a silly...

...origin, he reveals, was misconceived in the toils of his parents' monthly 'little family concernments'. 'Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' - his mother is interrupting 'Good G — /cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to...

...At first we think she had merely interrupted the father's conversation. Sterne plays with our error: Good G — ! cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, — Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?...

...Pflichten und dem Aufziehen der Standuhr verursacht wird. So kommt es zur initialen Unterbrechung: "Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot to wind up the dock? — Good G — / cried my father [...] — Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, Interrupt...

...when they are once A3 * "led 6 THE LIFE OF TRISTRAM SHANDY. ufed to, the devil himfelf fometimes fhall not be able to drive them off it. " Pray, my dear,"...wind up the clock ?" — " Good G — ! '* cried my rather, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the iame time,—" Did " ever...