|
||||||||
Chapter 55 If any thing in this world, which my father said, could have provoked my uncle Toby, during the time he was in love, it was the perverse use my father was always making of an expression of Hilarion the hermit; who, in speaking of his abstinence, his watchings, flagellations, and other instrumental parts of his religionwould saytho with more facetiousness than became an hermitThat they were the means he used, to make his ass (meaning his body) leave off kicking. It pleased my father well; it was not only a laconick way of expressing but of libelling, at the same time, the desires and appetites of the lower part of us; so that for many years of my fathers life, twas his constant mode of expressionhe never used the word passions oncebut ass always instead of themSo that he might be said truly, to have been upon the bones, or the back of his own ass, or else of some other mans, during all that time. I must here observe to you the difference betwixt My fathers ass and my hobby-horsein order to keep characters as separate as may be, in our fancies as we go along. For my hobby-horse, if you recollect a little, is no way a vicious beast; he has scarce one hair or lineament of the ass about himTis the sporting little filly-folly which carries you out for the present houra maggot, a butterfly, a picture, a fiddlestickan uncle Tobys siegeor an any thing, which a man makes a shift to get a-stride on, to canter it away from the cares and solicitudes of lifeTis as useful a beast as is in the whole creationnor do I really see how the world could do without it But for my fathers assoh! mount himmount himmount him(thats three times, is it not?)mount him not:tis a beast concupiscentand foul befal the man, who does not hinder him from kicking. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
Copyright: All texts on Bibliomania are © Bibliomania.com Ltd, and may not be reproduced in any form without our written permission. See our FAQ for more details. | ||||||||