Robinson credits Sterne with the discovery of the cinema... in his description of duration as the succession of ideas... which follow and succeed each other in our minds... like the images on the inside of a lanthorn... turned round by the heat of a candle.
Robinson atribúe a Sterne a descuberta do cinema, que describe coma unha sucesión de ideas "que desfilan polo noso espírito como as imaxes dunha lanterna máxica, movidas pola calor dunha vela."