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gulliver’s unravels
Robert Wadlow. The tallest man in the United States. …By his twentieth birthday, when he was 8 feet 6 3/4 inches tall, Wadlow’s step had slowed to an elephantine shuffle. He was infuriated now by those self-styled comedians who several … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Rainer giant, Gulliver's Travels, J.B.S.Haldane, John Rogan tallest human, Jonathan Swift, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Potsdam Giants, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Robert Pershing Wadlow, Robert Wadlow, square-cube-law Galileo, World's Tallest Man
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swift sparks of low heeled boys
A master satirist, Jonathan Swift was something of a misanthrope. An amiable one, but one who detested mankind. Still, undaunted, he wrote in a stubborn hope that people could be stung, stabbed, and whipped into better sense. Three-hundred years later, … Continue reading
lotus surreal: kimono my people
Do they deliberately mean to be unfathomable? The Japanese way of life has always contained a challenge to Western individuals which historically has provoked extreme responses. At one end, there is a feeling of enviousness of a spirit of graceful … Continue reading
ALL ARE ROGUES NONE ARE FOOLS
”Defoe’s political writing seems to have come to an end when, in 1718, he was discovered to be writing for both the Tory “Weekly Journal or Secondary Post” and the Whig “Whitehall Evening Post”. So, when he was nearly sixty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Prevost, Daniel Craig, Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders, George Bickham, Godolphin, Gulliver's Travels, Jacobite Rebellion 1715, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift, Lord Townshend Secretary of State, Moll Flanders, Pauline Hannah, Robert Harley, Robinson Crusoe, Roxana Daniel Defoe, Tessa Sanderson, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake
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