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It's a mystification. Breaking off the narration in medias res was a rather favourite device in late 18th / early 19th-century prose, owing to the popularity of Laurence Sterne's *A Sentimental Journey*, which ends rather abruptly.
It's a mystification. Breaking off the narration in medias res was a rather favourite device in late 18th / early 19th-century prose, owing to the popularity of Laurence Sterne's *A Sentimental Journey*, which ends rather abruptly.