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