Gulliver's Travels

The Only Farm Run the Old Way

The Flying Island 4, Lord Munodi

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Beyond a woodland path arched over by trees, a manor house comes into view.
Illustration by J. J. Grandville, Voyages de Gulliver, Paris, Fournier and Furne, 1838Original

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Gulliver cannot say he was badly treated on the island. But he confesses he felt too much neglected, and somewhat despised. Neither the king nor the people cared for any knowledge but mathematics and music. In those two Gulliver was far below them, so he was little regarded.

Once he had seen all the island’s curiosities, he longed to leave. They excelled in two sciences Gulliver greatly esteemed, but they were so lost in speculation that he had never met such disagreeable company.

In two months there, the only people he talked to were women, tradesmen, flappers and court pages. That made him thoroughly despised. Yet they were the only ones from whom he ever got a sensible answer.

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