Slop cuts his thumb trying to untie the knots of his doctor's bag Susannah scrapes her arm the midwife bangs her hip in a fall Dr. Shandy contorts himself trying to extract his handkerchief from his pocket Dr. Shandy screaming upstairs while she labors, but Mr. Hang up your hats, because this is going to take a while. In Book 3, Tristram is… still being born. Shandy each have a one-sided conversation: Toby explains his fortifications, and Mr. As he's being born (seriously), he explains how Toby became obsessed with building fortifications then, he digresses for a while about the philosopher John Locke while Susannah goes for the midwife and Obadiah goes for the doctor (and then leaves again for the doctor's tools). In Book 2, Tristram finally gets to his birth. Shandy's obsession with names (as well as Tristram's obsession with obsessions). Check out Book 1, as Tristram digresses about writing, philosophy, marriage, and even digressions and we learn about Mr. He then introduces Yorick and Toby-not to mention Toby's is-it-or-isn't-it wound-and lays out a few things we need to know about hobby-horses and digressions. Shandy exactly at the moment of ejaculation. Book 1 begins with Tristram's conception, which went wrong because Mrs. Let's rewind the clock to T-minus 20 seconds to the beginning of Tristram. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Summary
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