Shoes and movies

This afternoon I went shoe shopping, not for me - for my son. To round the day off we went to see a movie "Tristram Shandy". Quite funny and interesting to read what is on the web about the original The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman a novel by Laurence Sterne. Wonder if our young writer Foer got some ideas from Sterne? The scribblings on the right are from the original - that includes a set of sketches indicating the non-linear path of a well-told story; narrative digressions appear as deviations from a straight line.