“Lost in the meantime”. Tristram Shandy and Deleuzian Stuttering
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Tristram Shandy , the main problem of the protagonist, who wants to chronicle his life in its absolute entirety, is his inability to account for the transitions between events. A disproportionate focus on the interim leads Tristram to create an Eleatic, paradoxical narrative grammar, which endlessly unpacks causality without ever uncovering effects. I am arguing that, contrary to its hero, the novel itself, through its oddly haphazard structure bypasses these paradoxes by practicing what Deleuze has called “stuttering,” creating a text permanently focused on middle spaces, where idiosyncratic fragmentation produces radiant clusters of divergent narratives, which in turn allow Tristram’s story to preserve its forward momentum.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it