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Gulliver's Travels / Identity and Perception

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: identity, social hierarchy, self-perception, concealment, dignity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-23

He desired to see no more; and gave me leave to put on my clothes again, for I was shuddering with cold. I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so...
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Gulliver's Travels / Struldbrug Society

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, aging, societal critique, dignity, existential dread  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-16

“If a _struldbrug_ happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of...