So Gulliver has been taken and bound by some thousands of Lilliputians, and now we learn what the Emperor, who is a tad over six inches tall, and therefore whose head “strikes against the heavens,” according to his ceremonial title, has determined to do with him. Swift’s satire against European court manners and factional ambitions and strife is both subtle and keen. For a while, though, Gulliver is quite the fashion among the Lilliputians.
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