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 == Sterne's secretive squiggle == 

 A favor, if you have any ideas: At the beginning of La Peau de chagrin, Balzac inserts this image, which he attributes to ""Sterne—Tristram Shandy, ch. cccxxii"". Apparently in the Sterne novel, Corporal Trim traces the image (or one similar) in the air to illustrate the freedom an unmarried man enjoys. I can't find it anywhere in my copy of Sterne's novel, and a Google book search for ""Corporal Trim"" hasn't been any help. I did find the image online in a discussion of Sterne, and some of my Balzac criticism books refer to it being in Sterne – but I can't seem to find it in the original text. Any thoughts? –  •  "