Brobdingnag
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Oct 19, 2026
David WomersleyGUEST
So part one, where he goes to Lilliput, where he's among very small people.
David WomersleyGUEST
Part two, where he goes to Brobdingnag, where he's among giants.
David WomersleyGUEST
But there are two other parts to Gulliver's travels.
David WomersleyGUEST
It was published in four parts.
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David WomersleyGUEST
Gulliver is just a kind of narrative convenience.
David WomersleyGUEST
And we can see that he's not a character because of the way he varies from part to part.
David WomersleyGUEST
So if you just think about whether or not Gulliver is reliable as a narrator, broadly reliable in part one, not so reliable in part two, where he has to endure the rebukes of the king of Brobdingnag, who clearly has a sound moral and political sense.
David WomersleyGUEST
Reliable, again, in part three.
ToddNARRATOR
They look for all the world like those busy companies one sees in the Egyptian wall paintings, dragging home a huge granite colossus by sheer force of bone and sinew.
ToddNARRATOR
Every muscle in their tiny bodies is strained to the utmost as they prize themselves laboriously against the great boulders which strew the path and which are known to our Brobdingnagian intelligence as grains of sand.
ToddNARRATOR
Besides the workers themselves, a whole battalion of stragglers runs to and fro upon the broad line which leads to the headquarters of the community.
ToddNARRATOR
The provenance of these stragglers, who seem so busy doing nothing, probably consists in keeping communications open and encouraging the sturdy pullers by occasional relays of fresh workmen.
Bob CostasHOST
Six fewer home runs than Jose Canseco of the A's alone.
Bob CostasHOST
Speaking of Canseco, I'm about to find out how Gulliver felt in the land of the Brobdingnagians as I talk with Canseco and fellow basher Mark McGwire when we come back right after this.
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Frances KeilandHOST
Gulliver's Travels, a satire on humanity and its morals, manners, art, and politics.
Frances KeilandHOST
It takes the form of Lemuel Gulliver's journeys through his four strange lands, Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.
Frances KeilandHOST
Let's hear a sample of Gulliver's Travels, 300 years old, um, by Jonathan Swift.
Frances KeilandHOST
It's narrated by John Richmond.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Organizational amnesia.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
When Gulliver is shipwrecked again and arrives in Brobdingnag, he discovers the opposite problem.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Now he is tiny, surrounded by sixty-foot giants.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Here, the second adaptation reveals its hidden cost.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
In Brobdingnag, Gulliver must relearn everything.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
What was large is now small.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
What merited attention now seems trivial.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
These systems compete.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It is at once gargantuan in its fancy and grossly vivid in its facts.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Like Gulliver in the land of Brobdingnag, when he describes mountainous hands and faces filling the sky, bristles as big as hedges or moles as big as molehills.
speaker_3NARRATOR
To him, parents and guardians are not Olympians, as in Mr. Kenneth Graham's clever book, mysterious and dignified, dwelling upon a cloudy hill.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Rather they are all the more visible for being large.
speaker_3NARRATOR
They come out all the closer because they are colossal.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Their queer features and weaknesses stand out large in a sort of gigantic domesticity, like the hairs and freckles of a Brobdingnagian.
speaker_3NARRATOR
We feel the sombre murdstone coming upon the house like a tall storm striding through the sky.
speaker_3NARRATOR
We watch every pucker of Peggotty's pleasant face in its moods of flinty prejudice or whimsical hesitation.
speaker_0HOST
It's so good.
speaker_1HOST
But then Swift flips the script entirely in the second voyage to Brobdingnag.
speaker_0HOST
This is where the scale is reversed.
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.