Jiří Šalamoun's Tristram Shandy (4)

The corporal put his hat under his left arm, and with his stick hanging upon the wrist of it, by a black thong split into a tassel about the knot, he marched up to the ground where he had performed his catechism; then touching his under jaw with the thumb and fingers of his right hand before he opened his mouth,——he delivered his notion thus.

Vol. V, Chap. XXXVIII

koule - sphere; krychle - cube

 

Tristam, said, he, shall be made to conjugate every word in the dictionary, backwards and forwards the same way;——every word, Yorick, by this means, you see, is converted into a thesis [téze] or an hypothesis [hypotéza];——every thesis and hypothesis have an offspring of propositions;—and each proposition [propozice] has its own consequences [důsledek] and conclusions [záver]; every one of which leads the mind on again, into fresh tracks of enquiries and doubtings [pochybnosti].

Vol. VI, Chap. II

in no one moment of my existence, that I remember, have ye once deserted me, or tinged the objects which came in my way, either with sable, or with a sickly green; in dangers ye gilded my horizons with hope, and when DEATH himself knocked at my door—ye bad him come again; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference, did ye do it, that he doubted of his commission——

“—There must certainly be some mistake in this matter,” quoth he.

Vol. VII, Chap. I