“I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.”

Book V, Ch. 42.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

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