Tristram

• “Since Tristram is much more knowledgeable about computers than I am, I needed to know how to go about it.”

  Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » “How can I write a character that’s smarter than I am?”

• “Dissertation simply upon the word Tristram, — shewing the world, with great candour and modesty, the grounds of his great abhorrence to the name.”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “It only remained that he should have published a book in defence of the belief, and sure enough “in the year sixteen,” two years before the birth of his second son, “he was at the pains of writing an express dissertation simply upon the word Tristram, showing the world with great candour and modesty the grounds of his great abhorrence to the name.””

  Sterne

• “That’d put a hole in Tristram’s pride if it was brought up later.”

  Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Problematic Superpowers and How to Make Them Work

• “Whether he would take upon him to say, he had ever remembered, — whether he had ever read, — or even whether he had ever heard tell of a man, called Tristram, performing any thing great or worth recording? —”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “Meliodas, that when he is christened let call him Tristram, that is as much to say as a sorrowful birth.”

  Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table

• “And because I shall die of the birth of thee, I charge thee, gentlewoman, that thou pray my lord, King Meliodas, that when he is christened let call him Tristram, that is as much to say as a sorrowful birth.”

  Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1

• “Meanwhile, keep a parent's eye upon your son (he's called Tristram), for through him your reward will be attained.”

  The Blue Pavilions

• “The king was moved at the distress of the fair Isoude, and perhaps the idea of Tristram's death tended to allay his wrath.”

  The Age of Fable

• “Mr Gay added: "I decided to change my first name too because although I am called Tristram people always call me Tristan.”

  PinkNews.co.uk

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