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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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CBR16 BINGO: Horses, because Gulliver spends several years with the Houyhnhnms, a highly rational race of talking horses Take a nice, English surgeon and send him around the world, where he encounters all sorts of heretofore unknown races, and eventually he’ll come back absolutely hating on humanity. Gulliver’s Travels is so ingrained in popular culture that everyone knows something about it. I can’t remember my first introduction to the story, but it was probably in the form of a children’s comic book or animated special. […]

Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Patti Smith voice: Horses, horses, horses, horses, horses….. This book is amazing and more people should read it. I recently decided to tackle a few of my literature gaps, and 18th century British literature is probably my major one. I could say 17th century too, but I have read enough Shakespeare and other contemporaries plus later poets to at least appear respectable. I can ask questions at the every least. Anyway, I recently picked up a Tobias Smollett book and while it was going okay […]

Wash the glasses with your own water to save your master’s salt.

Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift

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This is a curious, satirical set of essays and musings written by Jonathan Swift in 1745, of Jonathan Swift fame. Here’s an odd wording from the author’s bio: “Written in the author’s final years of sanity…” And on that charming note! So what the book looks like, and this depends largely on your edition, is a few longish pieces and several smallish ones. The result comes across as a kind of writing that loses steam over time, and the short pieces do not tend to […]



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