Gulliver

• “I still don't even get what they mean," wrote one commenter under the name Gulliver.”

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• “You mention Rabelais, but perhaps Gulliver is sitting in the background here as well, a giant at times and a traveller to strange lands not unlike out own, when you scrape away the surface.”

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• “One is reminded of the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels, when the Big-Endians fought the Little-Endians to decide which end of the egg one should break open first.”

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• “According to Variety, Black is set to star in "Gulliver's Travels," a contemporary take on the classic Jonathan Swift story.”

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• “Lemuel Gulliver is one of the very few fictitious characters who are known and instantly recognized the world over, putting him in a class with Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote, and a few names from Shakespeare.”

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• “Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the great Irish writer and satirist, makes a curious reference to Mars's satellites in Gulliver's Travels.”

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• “But things change when Gulliver is convicted of treason over a fire in the royal palace.”

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• “This ties in with Lewis's observation that Gulliver is a commonplace little man and Alice a commonplace little girl ....”

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• “However, these inconsistencies are forced upon Swift by the fact that Gulliver is there chiefly to provide a contrast.”

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• “Whenever Gulliver is not acting as a stooge there is a sort of continuity in his character, which comes out especially in his resourcefulness and his observation of physical detail.”

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