Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:35:27 -0800
From: "Thad Q. Alexander" <rattler-AT-inreach.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: MotduJour:"gull"


Very cool Mr. Aktay! Very Cool!
And I loved your information Greg!
Both of you get a big Whitman "Yulp" for this one!!!
Me

Metin Aktay wrote:

> Would anyone have anything to add re Swift's Gulliver's Travels?
> Now that I have read your input re gull and gullibility and stuff,
> I am developing a sneaking suspicion that his choice of the name
> Gulliver is deliberate.
>
> Thankingly,
>
> Metin Aktay

Gregory {Greg} Downing wrote:

> Yes, absolutely, I have read that somewhere, and given early-modern English
> use of "gull"/fool, the implication was fairly obvious then. Swift's
> Gulliver story was originally to have Gulliver as the fool, not the various
> people visited as in the final version. It was in fact part of the
> Scriblerus project of the 1710's which some basically tory intellectuals
> initiated after the German Hanoverians got onto the English throne and
> shattered those intellectuals' ambitions to be the royally patronized
> cultural leaders of a new English imperial Augustan age.
>

AUH-YUP!
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Thad Q. Alexander
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OCC Undergraduate
Long Beach, CA.
USA
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