November 30 is reserved to Jonathan Swift
It's Jonathan Swift's 350 B-day, how should we celebrate?
Eating babies, of course ;)
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier – or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".
Bio: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Swift
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I was going to suggest eating babies, but you beat me to it, so, maybe a nice vacation in Brobdingnag?
ReplyDeleteI like it, after all is the land where human grandeur could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as us.
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