Und war es ein schlechter, so mag Tristram Shandy, der den Grund dazu legte, auch allein dafür gehängt werden. ###>And when the children were hungry and sullen and distrustful and one watched them, daily, growing wilder, and further away, and running headlong into danger, it was the Lord who knew what the charged heart endured as the strap was laid to the backside; the Lord alone who knew what one would have said if one had had, like the Lord, the gift of the living word.