Adaptinking Tristram, or the Wunderkammer in the Flesh.

The recent trend of literary tattoos, particularly popular in the Englishspeaking world, represents a new way of disseminating writers’ portraits, emblematic motifs, and textual fragments, on the body and online. Laurence Sterne’s already highly visual, highly quotable work is no exception. Based on a surprising encounter, this essay takes its cue from Tristram Shandy as an aesthetic object and explores how human skin can read like a blank page on which to reinscribe Sternean ink and its endless mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]