Gulliver's Travels

[Mark David Tristan Brenchley]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David Simpson wrote:

> In a recent post Dave Monroe referred to:
> 
> >the thinly veiled allusions to contemporay figures, events, and
> problems in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (which was apparently so
> potentially incendiary that it was
> published anonymously)<
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> But Gulliver's Travels wasn't published "anonymously." It was published
> "pseudonymously." It was all part of a joke to make the book appear
> (well, at least for a page or two) like authentic travel literature,
> which was extremely popular at the time. The actual title was not
> "Gulliver's Travels," but "Travels to Several Remote Regions of the
> World." And its putative author was Lemuel Gulliver, Captain, HMN.

	TO be honest, I think the biggest jokes on Swift. Wrote a
seething work of invective designed to change the world, and ended up
writing one of the most popular children's books of all time. Go figure.
But on a modern note, if you like Swift then check out the recent work of
Chris Morris, god's gift to comedy.

MArk 

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