Day 116 of 18064% of the book
Episode XIV · Oxen of the Sun

Sterne, Gibbon, and eighteenth-century wit

Today's passage · lines 14.791–930

The 2-minute recap

The prose grows wittier and more self-conscious, echoing Sterne's playful digressions and Gibbon's grand historical sweep. …

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