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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: before my uncle Toby (poor soul!) had well march'd above half a dozen
toises with it.
--It obliged my uncle Toby to make use of his forefinger.
The difference it made in the attack was this; That in going upon it, as in
the first case, with the end of her fore-finger against the end of my uncle
Toby's tobacco-pipe, she might have travelled with it, along the lines,
from Dan to Beersheba, had my uncle Toby's lines reach'd so far, without
any effect: For as there was no arterial or vital heat in the end of the
tobacco-pipe, it could excite no sentiment--it could neither give fire by
pulsation--or receive it by sympathy--'twas nothing but smoke.
Whereas, in following my uncle Toby's forefinger with hers, close thro' all
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