Word: smelfungus
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...drily added, "--like his novels should have died too." Richardson was supposed to be pathetic, but if Mr. Chandler couldn't be more pathetic than that guy, he'd quit. But that virtuoso of unnatural virtue has been effectively laid low, and today we hear about Tobias (Smelfungus) Smollett, the good-natured ship's surgeon who was exhilaratingly picaresque both in his life and in his heroes, and Laurence Sterne, the scurrilous curate who poured his irregular soul into the shockingly irregular Tristram Shandy...
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