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Posted on January 22, 2017June 4, 2017

In which I read Gulliver’s Travels and am vexed

In which I read Gulliver's Travels and am vexed

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, first published in 1726, satirizes human society and the “traveler’s tales” genre popular in the pre-Google Maps era. Apparently, he wrote the book “to vex the world.” I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I felt quite vexed upon reading the last page. Continue reading “In which I read Gulliver’s Travels and am vexed”

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