tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post5987453566896934390..comments2024-03-25T12:56:59.509-04:00Comments on alien romances: Suspension Of DisbeliefRowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-54245288193853227602010-11-02T15:23:23.263-04:002010-11-02T15:23:23.263-04:00Oh, I forgot -- I'll bet your edition also omi...Oh, I forgot -- I'll bet your edition also omits the scene where Gulliver urinates on a fire to put it out. The eighteenth century had no qualms at all about mentioning body functions in print.Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-13946932883493238752010-11-02T15:22:08.771-04:002010-11-02T15:22:08.771-04:00But GULLIVER'S TRAVELS is certainly not a chil...But GULLIVER'S TRAVELS is certainly not a children's book. The first two sections are often presented that way, because the tiny people and the giants lend themselves to "children's fantasy" treatment. The third and fourth parts of the original book are very un-childlike.<br /><br />And the first two parts, at that, are customarily abridged (expurgated) for young readers, and it has to be an expurgated edition you're reading. In the original, there's a quite explicit scene about Gulliver's moving to the end of his chain to take care of that digestive inconvenience you mention.Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.com