Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift – One of The Top 100 Books of All Time https://poemeglume.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-top-100-books-of-all-time.html compiled with the luminaries of our age 9 out of 10

 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift – One of The Top 100 Books of All Time https://poemeglume.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-top-100-books-of-all-time.html compiled with the luminaries of our age

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Gulliver’s Travels has much more significance than a children’s tale wherein this protagonist arrives in the land of the Lilliputians, then becomes a guest in Brobdingnag, and we have the mirth of looking down on little creatures and see the main character moving about among giants…evidently, there are passages - perhaps the whole book without editing and adaptation -  that are not suitable for the under age, seeing as there are erotic encounters and I remember vividly how I found the (sexual) intimacy that the Man has with a female giant so exciting and sensual that this is still stored in the brain’s data base in burning letters http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/04/gullivers-travels-by-jonathan-swift.html

 

Various adaptations have been made for cinema and television, one with the illustrious Peter O Toole – but a shadow of the glory days of Lawrence of Arabia http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/lawrence-of-arabia-written-by-robert.html one of the best five motion pictures in history – another with Jack Black in the title role – it was because the actor had a good profile, image in countries around the world, with studios concerned with the box office takings overseas, they had just started to use talent that sells well in China, Russia, etc. – but there they insist on comedy.

The symbols are serious nevertheless, with the hero having to deal with small creatures, where one is inclined to feel privileged and use the power…the example of Trump comes to mind, a sort of ‘Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time/Into this breathing world, scarce half made up’ ghoul that recalls Richard the Third, he is ‘half made up’ in a metaphorical sense, however obese he is (and liars gave him the false medical certificates to boast) and as for Richard III we have a distorted image of him

 

We learn from one of the greatest mystery novels, The Daughter of Time by Josephine Fey, that the myth of Richard III as one of the most notorious monsters of history has to give way http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-daughter-of-time-by-josephine-fey.html to the true historical events, the king has not killed his nephews, and he was a decent human being, not the cruel tyrant described in the play of William Shakespeare – how resplendent those lines are ‘now is the winter of our discontent/ turned into glorious summer by this son of York/ And all the clouds that loured upon our house/ In the deep bosom of the ocean buried’ – alas, most of humanity will ‘remember’ him as a criminal

Now how about Trump – he was arrested and arraigned yesterday in New York, fingerprinted and presented with thirty-four counts, felony charges if that is the technical form – the worst president in history and a danger that could come back to haunt us in 2024…some will say what do you care, if you are so far away, but this was the leader of the free world, and if he returns, he will destroy NATO (maybe the world) and allow Russia to complete its invasion of Ukraine and probably the rest of the old Soviet Union and why not, take the old Warsaw pact under its rule again, with an idiot in the White House

 

That is one symbol that I see in Gulliver, and that we can use in the real world, you have someone like the Orange Felon and insurrectionist in chief – he has had last night and on so many occasions the song recorded by the Jail Chorus, cave men arrested and jailed for what they did on the Capitol hill on January 6, 2021 played to him…he is on the recording, he does that, as he threatens the prosecutor with a baseball bat in a posting, his equally deranged son posts photos of the daughter of the judge, it is unbelievable what the greatest democracy in the world has come to, if this was its leader, and potential president in 2024, embraced by so many congressmen from the GOP, then it is Lilliput we will live in.

China of course tries to be Brobdingnag, the realm of the giants, or anyway, the land that is getting bigger, swallowing Taiwan, also islands which are not theirs in the South China Sea, that belong to Japan, just like they did with Tibet – it looks as if we will have to be Lilliputians in a future that is controlled by Xi and his sycophants – you should read The Economist in general, but the one of this week in particular, to find more about the clash between the USA and the rising empire that supports the invading Putin in Ukraine and will introduce a new world order where big dogs aka large countries bully and occupy the small ones, with China as alpha dog, playing the Chili Palmer character from Get Shorty http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/get-shorty-by-elmore-leonard-aka.html ‘I’m the one telling you how it is’

 

Chili was charming, Xi is not, it is an excellent idea to read Why The West Rules For Now http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-west-rules-for-now-by-ian-morris.html by great Ian Morris and find about Why China is still not on top – the history could have been different, the conquistadores could have met the Chinese in the Americas, for they had built huge vessels, more than capable to cross oceans with large crews (Columbus, Vespucci and the others had tiny boats when compared with the Chinese ships) only their rulers had decided to forbid long journeys – besides, you get so much insight into Singularity, the future and…exquisite humor All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us…Brought peace…Oh, peace…SHUT UP’ extract from Monty Python’s Life of Brian

On more personal levels, one could feel Lilliputian in everyday life – as when you pay for services at a club and now there is a piece from the experience one has in the land of local Brobdingna, where employees act like giants, showing contempt for customers (oops, not that, guests, the folks behave as if they own the place and those coming in are intruders, never mind the subscription)  these are just a few lines from the complaint that I will send the Boys From Brazil, Insha’Allah ‘The saunas do not work…The outdoor Jacuzzi has been closed since November for the 'cold season' but it was not opened in March or April...

The inside Jacuzzi is on and off, with a timetable that is not followed, and then it had periods when it was out of order, with all the above out of use as well

As if this was not enough, some employees and security guard use the Jacuzzi, sauna and/or use the gym, just as those venues are under pressure,  with limited seating,  malfunctioned or out or order assets...

When management is told about all this pandemonium, the failures are blamed on...the clients, hotel, higher management that does not provide the funds for repairs, missing batteries, etc. ‘ http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world

 

Written by Realini the Revolutionary – the evidence is in Newsweek the link to the article about the fall of Ceausescu in 1989 is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html