Vampires or undead as “sentient beings” deserving of compassion and love raise high-stake philosophical and religious questions
English literature
Uncle Toby and the Fly: Compassion for Animals in Tristram Shandy
Raymond Lam On my way to the office I was listening to my favorite podcast, the BBC’s almost-peerless In Our Time. I was on the episode where Melvyn Bragg and his guests were discussing the idiocsyncratic and bonkers novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Written by the clergyman Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy is the 18th-century […]