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Gulliver Quotes

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Jonathan Swift
“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver鈥檚 Travels

Sylvia Plath
“Over your body the clouds go
High, high and icily
And a little flat, as if they

Floated on a glass that was invisible.
Unlike swans,
Having no reflections;

Unlike you,
With no strings attached.
All cool, all blue. Unlike you

You, there on your back,
Eyes to the sky.”
Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Erica Bauermeister
“She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.”
Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners

“袘械蟹 小袙袠肖孝袗 薪械褌 袚褍谢谢懈胁械褉邪.”
袝胁谐械薪懈泄 袚械薪写懈薪

Richard Fortey
“There are lands of the imagination that cannot exist, but seem real; and there are lands that once existed that somehow seem remote and hard to credit. Perhaps their comparative solidity depends on the hand of a skilled writer. Who can doubt the reality of the countries beyond the sea that Jonathan Swift peopled so skilfully for his hero Lemuel Gulliver to visit, not merely to stimulate the imagination, but as a ruse to illustrate human frailties: puffed up and monstrous in Brobdignag, or shrunk in Lilliput to petty proportions to match the triviality of their concerns? Yet to travel back in time to the land of the Gonds - Gondwana - or to try to grasp the reality of Pangaea 250 million years ago seems to require a greater leap of imagination. But these places existed, as solid as Africa is today.”
Richard Fortey, Earth: An Intimate History