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Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels.' (Jonathan Swift)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19930622
Author:Morvan, Alain

A historical event may have been the source for a chapter of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' in which Gulliver puts out a palace fire by urinating on it. Dr. Edmund King saved Charles II's life on Feb 2, 1685 by bleeding him during a fit of apoplexy. However, many at the time considered Dr King at risk for risking Charles II's life. The ingratitude of the Emperor in Gulliver's travels is reminiscent of that attitude.

In part 1, chapter 5 of Gulliver's Travels (1726), Gulliver saves the Lilliputian emperor's palace from destruction by urinating on the fire threatening to consume ...

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