Lilliput and Blefuscu
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Oct 12, 2026
Sebastian LangdellHOST
The one that stands out to me was actually the first time I was living in Austin about 20 years ago when I was a grad student in creative writing at UT.
Sebastian LangdellHOST
And I went as Gulliver from Gulliver's Travels and specifically Gulliver among the Lilliputians.
Sebastian LangdellHOST
So I had these little plastic army men hanging off of me in ropes.
Sebastian LangdellHOST
I was the giant, which makes sense because I'm pretty tall.
JordanHOST
Yeah.
KumarHOST
But I remember in elementary school, I went to the school library and got this comic out, I think it was a digest, where Richie Rich had this kind of like Gulliver's Travels experience where he, these little, mini Lilliputians tied him down.
KumarHOST
And, um-
JordanHOST
That sounds kinda cool, actually
Rick RobinsonHOST
I'm talking about people that are getting degrees in English, have no idea about books like Gulliver's Travels.
Rick RobinsonHOST
Somebody made a comment the other night about them in regards to the Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels, and they were like, I don't understand that reference.
Rick RobinsonHOST
And I was literally just gobsmacked for like 30 seconds.
Rick RobinsonHOST
I'm like, wait a minute.
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
I refuse to know.
Adam GlassHOST
Lilliputian?
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
Yeah.
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
Lilliputian, yeah-
Adam GlassHOST
Um-
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
... is, is probably what I will say from now on.
Adam GlassHOST
Lights turned on, he didn't scatter.
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
Yeah.
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.
X7HOST
They're tiny little people.
X7HOST
They do the old Gulliver thing, but they're smarter than the Lilliputians.
X7HOST
Ugg can't move.
X7HOST
Bronte goes to run and get Dino Boy, who's just sitting there doing nothing.
Jonty RhodesHOST
It's not that impressive really, is it? Because all he's doing is looking down.
Jonty RhodesHOST
We're like Lilliputians.
Jonty RhodesHOST
Have you read Gulliver's Travels? The Lilliputians, they're little six-inch-tall people.
Jonty RhodesHOST
And Gulliver turns up as a sort of full-sized man, a human being.
Jonty RhodesHOST
And it, it is just a ridiculous world.
Chris MarkowskiHOST
The economy should have ripped.
Chris MarkowskiHOST
It should have ripped, but it didn't because he decided to act like the Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels and hold everything down and start picking and choosing winners and losers and starting god-awful programs like Obamacare, and I can go on and on and on.
Chris MarkowskiHOST
We should have the world's preeminent economy, and we do.
Chris MarkowskiHOST
We do.
Tom BilyeuHOST
Everything just grinds to a halt.
Tom BilyeuHOST
For people that don't know the story of Gulliver's Travels, you have this guy that encounters these tiny Lilliputians.
Tom BilyeuHOST
And despite him being, you know, whatever, a thousand times bigger than they are, they just end up tying him down with all these tiny little strings.
Tom BilyeuHOST
And it's an analogy that Elon certainly has used a lot.
Sean McPhersonHOST
he's a real...
Chuck TerharkHOST
Lilliputians are from Gulliver's Travels.
Chuck TerharkHOST
This is a lesser known thing.
Chuck TerharkHOST
People don't realize that this is where this word comes from.
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