Tag Archives: Laurence Sterne

A Taoist Response to Grieving

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2022

Taoist Chuang Tzu has a story about grieving that I find immensely comforting.

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When a Novel Affected Clock Sales

By Robin Bates | Published: June 9, 2022

Friday I have lots of thoughts about the Congressional hearings on Donald Trump’s January 6 coup attempt, which opened last night, and am working up a post that references Milton’s rebel angels. I’ll end this week, however, on a lighter note, an interesting footnote that my English professor son alerted me to. Apparently, Laurence Sterne’s […]

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Imagining Little Ocean’s Future

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2018

Looking for the literary significance of my latest grandchild, I turn to Walcott, Whitman, Masefield, Coleridge, and Byron. What emerges is a mystical seeker.

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To Esmé and Alban with Love (No Squalor)

By Robin Bates | Published: June 18, 2012

With names from Salinger and Blake, my two new grandchildren have promising destinies.

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Midwife, No Doc, at Grandson’s Birth

By Robin Bates | Published: February 6, 2012

My new grandson had the birth experience denied Tristram Shandy: one where a midwife was in charge.

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On Literary Names and Destinies

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2009

Reynold, “Portrait of Sterne”                                   Just as I was born into a literary name, so were Darien and Toby.  Before telling the story, I will follow up on the allusion in my last post to Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy […]

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