Bidding ends on 31 October for the 169 ’emblems’ created by a motley array of writers and artists to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Lawrence Sterne’s marbled page. Dropped into volume III of his enthralling, exasperating shaggy-mammoth story Tristram Shandy, the marbled page is proposed as a ‘motly emblem’ of the work as a whole, with its endless digressions, its unpredictable eddies and cross-currents, its colourful, chancy swirl of ideas. The Lawrence Sterne Trust are auctioning off 169 visual and verbal meditations on Sterne’s 169th page, and in true Sternean fashion are playing a game of anonymity–will you end up with a Quentin Blake, a Lavinia Greenlaw, a Ralph Steadman, an N. F. Simpson, an Iain Sinclair, a Lemony Snicket? The eye-watering exhibition can be viewed here.