
Gulliver's Travels, with eBook
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Shipwrecked and cast adrift, English surgeon Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters—with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos—give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Jonathan Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified, and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
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When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them. The method is this:You take a hundred leaders of each party; you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of asize; then let two nice operators saw off the occiput of each couple at the same time, in such a manner that thebrain may be equally divided. Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of hisopposite party-man. It seems indeed to be a work that requires some exactness, but the professor assured us,"that if... I replied that England (the dear place of my nativity) was computed to produce three times the quantity of food, more than its inhabitants are able to consume, ... But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, from whence in return we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows of necessity that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing,... He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels //
Quanta amarezza in questo libro. La sua ferocia fa paura; non sorprende che sia stato svuotato e smembrato fino a trasformarlo in una narrazione informe da proporre come "libro per bambini". Quella versione ha il suo fascino avventuroso, ma questo romanzo stato concepito dall'autore come una severa critica all'umanit cosiddetta civilizzata,... . : . . . . : . . . : . . . . . . : ": " . . . : ( "" ) . . . ( ) ( ...). (" ..." ) . . . :http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/ne... So much more than just a fantastical tale of a man journeying to mystical lands. This is thinly veiled satire...super thin.A seafaring Englishman ends up in four fairytale worlds where people are small, gigantic, smarties in the maths, and where people are horses. By the second journey you'd think he'd be done with all this, but in...