Lilliput

cantos dos velhos muros, finalmente aceitei a triste verdade. Todos haviam para sempre deixado a Inglaterra e partido para algum país selvagem, onde as florestas fossem densas e agrestes, e a população menos numerosa. Ao passo que, na minha crença, Lilliput e Brobdinag eram partes sólidas da crosta terrestre, e eu não duvidava que um dia, se fizesse uma longa viagem, poderia ver com meus próprios olhos os pequenos campos, casas e árvores daquele reino, as pequeninas vacas, ovelhas e…

mushrooms and beneath the ground-ivy mantling old wall-nooks, I had at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth’s surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows,…

where in the small cities, as everyone knows, the privies are not equipped in any other way. The stream of urine that washes everything clean is an unmistakable allusion to greatness. It is in this manner that Gulliver extinguishes the great fire in Lilliput; to be sure, he thereby incurs the displeasure of the tiniest of queens. In this way, too, Gargantua, the superman of Master Rabelais, takes vengeance upon the Parisians, straddling Notre-Dame and training his stream of urine upon…