tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602181.post2321959495159421839..comments2023-05-01T02:20:17.768-07:00Comments on Read This Because I Probably Won't Call: Failure of the Week: Tristram Shandypiglethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14544714000574510171noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602181.post-27671265494474307152009-02-17T18:42:00.000-08:002009-02-17T18:42:00.000-08:00That book is considered, well, peculiar, even in t...That book is considered, well, peculiar, even in the English lit world. I've read it myself (my major was 18th century English lit), and I just shook my head.<BR/><BR/>It may help with the quote you included to know that, around the end of the 18th century (when Sterne wrote), the English government's revenue raising measures included a tax on the number of windows in your house. That's what he means by "window-money." I've read at least one Regency romance in which a poor aristocrat boarded up all his 4th floor windows to reduce his wondow tax.hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602181.post-57012277488663650282009-02-12T19:47:00.000-08:002009-02-12T19:47:00.000-08:00I bet he got beat up a lot in school.I bet he got beat up a lot in school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com