Vulgar words in Laurence Sterne in Germany - A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of - England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century (Page 1)
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Cast in the real Yorick mould is the scene in which Pumper kills a marmot (Hamster); upon his master's expostulation that God created the little beast also, Pumper is touched, wipes the blood off with his cuff and buries the animal with tenderness, indulging in a pathetic soliloquy; the whole being a variant of Yorick's ass episode.
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A former acquaintance of Frau Kurt, whose favorite reading was Shandy, Wieland's "Sympatien" and the Sentimental Journey, serves to satirize the influence of Yorick's ass episode; this gentleman wept at the sight of an ox at work, and never ate meat lest he might incur the guilt of the murder of these sighing creatures.
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Pankraz, on going home, takes his Yorick and reads again the chapter containing the dead-ass episode; he spends much time in determining which event was the more affecting, and tears flow at the thought of both animals.
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On one occasion she refused to drive home, as this would take the horses out in the noonday sun and disturb their noonday meal,--an exorbitant sympathy with brute creation which owes its popularity to Yorick's ass.