Laputa

Then eventually he decides after a few months that he will travel again.

He finds himself in Laputa, which maybe, you know, I, again, like, like I said, I only read the first two parts of the book, which is Lilliput and Robden Night.

I didn't even know about Laputa since, till I was about a teenager.

And when I was reading it through COVID, Laputa was the place that really jumped out to me as the standout feature that I'd never thought about before, because this is a highly technocratic place.

place, it's a flying island, which is built by all these scientists, technologists, mathematicians and geniuses.

Okay.

And below it is Balnababri, which is a country which is literally under the flying island of Laputa, right.

So there is this great technocratic elite class that is very educated, and they literally are ruling or reigning over, you know, the people below them.

Gulliver's Travels, a satire on humanity and its morals, manners, art, and politics.

It takes the form of Lemuel Gulliver's journeys through his four strange lands, Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.

Let's hear a sample of Gulliver's Travels, 300 years old, um, by Jonathan Swift.

It's narrated by John Richmond.

Where next?

The third voyage takes us to Laputa, which is a flying island, and the Academy of Lagado underneath it.

Here, Swift targets a different kind of pride.

The intellectuals.