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alexanderjamie 's review for:
A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
dark
funny
fast-paced
Some works are exactly as long as they need to be while really getting the message across — I think is what has allowed Swift’s “A Model Proposal” to have survived the century.
It is shocking how relevant it still is while applying some absolutely dry and serious wit throughout — as Swift says:
It is shocking how relevant it still is while applying some absolutely dry and serious wit throughout — as Swift says:
Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither clothes, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury
Clearly, eating the children of the poor was the only solution.