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Jonathan Swift
· Gulliver's Travels
· Project Gutenberg
Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but, rising up in fury, said, he wondered how the secretary durst presume to give his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggravation of your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in her majesty’s apartment (which he mentioned with hor...
Admiral Bolgolam’s fury manifests physically as he rises, his voice sharp with accusation and disdain. His vivid horror at the secretary’s unconventional act of extinguishing fire with urine underlines a grotesque intimacy with betrayal and disorder within the...