May you live every day of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift
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And now for some fun with classical music. Telemann wrote this suite in 1728, two years after the Jonathan Swift classic was published, and it humorously refers to some of his creations with the music.
"Intrada Suite for Two Violins (The Gulliver Suite)," composed by Georg Philipp Telemann, performed here by uncredited artists.
"The governor and his family are served by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his skill in necromancy, he could call whom he pleases from the dead.... [The servants' countenances] made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express."
- Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift
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The Achilles heel of creepy weirdos is they hate, hate, hate being laughed at.
Comedy is their kryptonite.
Satire is salt in their psychic wounds.
After all, #JonathanSwift made a modest proposal, in the spirit of #Juvenal.
en.wikipedia.orgJuvenal - Wikipedia
A modest proposal about popes...
So, another pope has died and his ashes will soon be emitted from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel. It is time to select a new pope.
But the pope has presided over a seemingly endless series of scandals for generations. They keep electing new popes, but the problems never go away. Why can't they solve these problems?
Looking for commonalities among all the popes of the last century or so, one stood out to me: they're all Catholic!
Maybe they should try choosing a nice Unitarian, or perhaps a Wiccan? They'd have at least as good a chance of solving the problems as the last umpteen Catholic popes. Maybe even better.
It's worth a shot.
(V jbaqre ubj znal ercyl thlf jvyy rnearfgyl rkcynva gb zr jul gur cbcr zhfg or Pngubyvp.)
Names of Craters on Phobos, discovered in 1877. You may recognize some of them? #Swift #TeamEnglish #literature #satire #astronomy #science #telescope #scifi #moon #JonathanSwift #18thcentury #19thcentury #cartography #lunar
Useless quote for 10 Mar:
"How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?"
~ Jonathan Swift, in "Thoughts on various subjects", 1711-1726
Damn you #JonathanSwift!
If you had only kept your mouth shut! 
> He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.
This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.
…
> He assured me “that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech
via #thechipletter’s latest, https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine
The Chip Letter · The Engine
On this day in 1667 Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist and clergyman was born in Dublin. He was an Anglican cleric and became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
“Neck or nothing” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880). #111Words #ThomasHardy #TheTrumpetMajor #NeckOrNothing #JonathanSwift #WilliamCowper #CharlesDickens #SketchesByBoz #OED #Novels #Idioms https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/neck-or-nothing-in-thomas-hardys.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.com“Neck or nothing” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880)In Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major" (1880), while they are trying to protect Bob Loveday from a press gang, Matilda Johnson tells Anne Gar...
Useless quote for 12 Nov:
"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense."
~Jonathan Swift, under the nom de plume "Tobiah Greenhat", in The Tatler No. 63 (1-3 Sep 1709)
Jonathan Swift died in Dublin on 19 October 1745. He was an Anglo-Irish satirist, poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Useless quote for 11 Sep:
"… reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired …"
~ Jonathan Swift, 1720
Depending upon one's definition, either John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) or Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) could be called the first English fantasy novel. They both provide numerous imaginary continents, along with maps for context.
La nave come scrigno di sogni https://www.carmillaonline.com/2024/07/25/la-nave-come-scrigno-di-sogni/ #AntoinedeSaint-Exupéry #RobertLouisStevenson #EmanueleCrialese #L'isoladiMedusa #MichelFoucault #JonathanSwift #MarcoMarmeggi #DanielDefoe #Recensioni #Eterotopie #PaoloLago #razzismo #Medusa #isola
Carmilla on lineLa nave come scrigno di sognidi Paolo Lago Marco Marmeggi, L’isola di Medusa, Giunti, Milano, 2024, pp. 205, euro 14,00. [...]
May you live every day of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift
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Beetje tegen de moordpartijen door Netanyahu cs. ook wel zeker?
Overigens.
Waar blijft de #yahoo in relatie tot het reisverslag van #jonathanswift naar het land van de #huoyhnhnms.
Als WIJ dan al lezen in weerwil van die 21%, kunnen we dan met een (heel!) korte grinnik die oorlogsmisdadiger verbinden aan wat al meer dan 250 bekend was?
We wisten het al.