Speaking of words ...

[ed_rex]

... have you, Gentle Readers (and especially Laura!) - read Jonathon Swift's A Modest Proposal? I've been alluding to the damned thing for years. The other day ... er, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/ed_rex/friends> one of you</a> ... suggested I actually read it. I did. It's much shorter than I'd imagined. Terse (in a legalesee kind of way). Dry and subtle - his academic-style descriptions of a suckling one-year old child, properly prepared his hilarious. Brilliant satire. I'm glad I've been paraphrasing its thesis for years.

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[fadefromnothing.livejournal.com]

I read that when I was far younger, and simply adored it. Jonathan Swift wove quite a few of my childhood dreams due to his other books, and A Modest Proposal simply strenghtened that in my morbid nature, hah.

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

I'm almost ashamed to admit that, the above-noted essay aside, I've never read anything else by Swift. I received a copy of Gulliver's Travels as a Christmas present when I was 10 or so, but it was an abridged version and I was too snobby to read it.