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He has come home changed, and the world he returns to no longer fits — so before the voyages begin, he insists you understand exactly why he wrote them down.
Lemuel Gulliver
A plainspoken ship's surgeon measures impossible worlds until he can no longer live comfortably in his own.
Redriff
The home port he always came back to becomes the one place he can no longer stand to live.
Gulliver angrily disowns flattering edits, insisting false praise has corrupted his truth.
Read →Renouncing the Inserted Praise
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called “A Voyage round the world.” But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce every thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memory; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species. But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master _Houyhnhnm_: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty’s reign, she did govern by a chief minister; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
Gulliver has come home from the land of the rational horses so thoroughly converted that he now finds it indecent to praise a human being, even a queen, ahead of his horse master. In this letter to the cousin who talked him into publishing, he insists a flattering paragraph about Queen Anne be struck out, and note the reason he settles on: not that praise is beneath her, but that it would be false, because she was really run by her ministers. He has picked up the Houyhnhnm horror of "the thing that was not," the plain word for a lie, and he now aims it at his own countrymen.
A Sailor's Apologia
He has come home changed, and the world he returns to no longer fits — so before the voyages begin, he insists you understand exactly why he wrote them down.
Gulliver's Travel Papers
A bundle of travel papers turns impossible voyages into a record other people control.
Emperor of Lilliput
A monarch no taller than Gulliver's hand treats the giant body before him as prisoner, weapon, and threat.
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