Published in December 2022, "What Really Happened To Laurence" caused a bit of a stir, partly because I didn't explain one of my arguments as well as I should have. I also got something completely wrong: Willem isn't the person depicted in the Surgery Altar.

UPDATE: This is Part 1 of a threepart series, with two new installments from 2024. Please check the playlists tab to view the episodes in order.

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Green, Carole. “Laurence Sterne.” BBC, March 13, 2009. Accessed December 15, 2022, at bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2009/03/11/laurence_sterne_profile_feature.shtml.

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