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The novel “conducts an extremely interesting dialogue with silence, continually taking us to the point where language loses its power to communicate and other methods must be employed (by both the author and his characters). When Uncle Toby’s servant draws a diagram in the sand to declare the joys of bachelorhood . . . we recognize that we have reached the boundaries of language, as does Uncle Toby himself: ‘A thousand of my father’s most subtle syllogisms could not have said more for celibacy.”
—Stuart Sim, Manifesto For Silence (2007)
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“Like any other gesture, the Corporal’s flourish embodies a certain duration. The line to which it gives rise is, therefore, intrinsically dynamic and temporal. When, pen in hand, Sterne recreated the flourish on the page, his gesture left an enduring trace that we can still read.”
—Tim Ingold, Lines: A Brief History (1899)
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