Part 3

[theduckthief]

This topic is for discussing "A Voyage to Leputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Clubbdubdrib and Japan".

[theduckthief]

First off, Lilliputian and Laputian are too close. Bad Swifty!

Laputians = masochistic much? Either that or they need some guy to smack them with a bladder to help them concentrate. (They don't seem too bright)

I loved how the Laputians were into math but were absolutely horrible at it. This includes their food ie, mutton carved into an equilateral triangle.

Is the floating island made of diamond? Swift says 'adamant' and my knowledge of X-Men says this means diamonds. If so, the bottom wouldn't crack if it tried to crush a city.

On the positive side, this is very sci-fi and I like the idea of the royal family being virtual prisoners. But again Swift has to add his own blend of boring, such as the description of how the lodestone works *snore*

And then he mentions brain transplants and immortality and I get all interested again. And calling people back from the dead? Alright! This is definitely my favourite section of the book. But then Swift fails me again because we read that he talks to Caesar and Alexander the Great but we don't get the conversations.

Look Swifty, if you're going to have Gulliver talk to such luminaries, you need to give us something more meaty besides their names!

Also, I didn't get the whole "Dutch trampling on the crucifix" bit. While both statements are inherently racist I don't know where the Dutch angle is coming from. Were the British and Dutch fighting at this point? West Indies maybe?