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Quotation from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
“from an unhappy association of ideas, which have no connection in nature”
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. I, Ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg text)
Tristram explains that his mother could never hear the clock wound without thinking of other things, and invokes Locke on such strange combinations of ideas.
Citation: "from an unhappy association of ideas, which have no connection in nature" — Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. I, Ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg text). (id sterne-tristram-shandy-q2)
Portrait: Laurence Sterne by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joshua Reynolds, Public domain.
