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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels must have been a freeing book to write, lambasting as it does much of polite society. It has the feeling of having come out all of a piece.
At the time I read this, I felt like I was living caught between Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Although his journeys to those two places are the best known part of the book, I have always been drawn more to the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. The peaceful nature of the Houyhnhnms appeals to me. The Yahoos, on the other hand, have nothing to recommend them, other than that they stand in contrast to their more sentient neighbors.
The visit to Laputa, home of the crazy mad scientists is a really fun read. It reminds me of the people from Homeland Security who want to build a bio-terror lab up the street from my house. One of the things they plan on studying is insect-borne diseases, so they will have clouds of mosquitos infected with malaria and god-only-knows what else. In hot, humid Georgia. That is a plan worthy of a Jonathan Swift satire. I am only sorry his acid pen is not around to record it.
At the time I read this, I felt like I was living caught between Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Although his journeys to those two places are the best known part of the book, I have always been drawn more to the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. The peaceful nature of the Houyhnhnms appeals to me. The Yahoos, on the other hand, have nothing to recommend them, other than that they stand in contrast to their more sentient neighbors.
The visit to Laputa, home of the crazy mad scientists is a really fun read. It reminds me of the people from Homeland Security who want to build a bio-terror lab up the street from my house. One of the things they plan on studying is insect-borne diseases, so they will have clouds of mosquitos infected with malaria and god-only-knows what else. In hot, humid Georgia. That is a plan worthy of a Jonathan Swift satire. I am only sorry his acid pen is not around to record it.