Re: Gulliver's Travels: "...with which most writers abound"



CDB filted:

Xah Lee wrote:

btw, this is the end of his travels in the giant land, where he just
"escaped" by a eager's hunger and was rescuned by a ship of human
animals, and the captain was suggesting to him to publish his
encounter of the giant land.

You can call it Brobdingnag. Everybody knows where that is.

Yes...400 leagues from the Straits of Madagascar, on a peninsula on the
northwest coast of California....

In part three, Gulliver briefly visits Japan, which is treated exactly as
seriously as the other fictional countries in the "Travels"....r

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