Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/03
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September 7 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_7>, 1710
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1710> - December 5
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_5>, 1715
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1715>
Despite his earlier intention of remaining at home, Gulliver returns to
sea where his crew was captured by Dutch and Japanese pirates in order
to force them to also become pirates. He is abandoned in a landing boat
and comes first upon a race of (apparently) hideous deformed creatures
to which he conceives a violent antipathy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipathy>. Shortly thereafter he meets a
horse and comes to understand that the horses (in their language
Houyhnhnm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houyhnhnm> or "the perfection of
nature") are the rulers and the deformed creatures ("Yahoos
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_%28literature%29>") are human beings
in their basest form. Gulliver becomes a member of the horse's
household, and comes to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnms and their
lifestyle, rejecting humans as merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance
of reason which they only use to exacerbate and add to the vices Nature
gave them. However, an Assembly of the Houyhnhnms rules that Gulliver, a
Yahoo with some semblance of reason, is a danger to their civilization
and he is expelled. He is then rescued, against his will, by a
Portuguese ship that returns him to his home in England. However, he is
unable to reconcile himself to living among Yahoos; he becomes a recluse
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recluse>, remaining in his house, largely
avoiding his family, and spending several hours a day speaking with the
horses in his stables.
Source Wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels#Houyhnhnms
Perrier Jouet
http://www.lesechos.fr/info/agro/4702160.htm
The cheapest bottle of champgne in the world of Yahoos ;-)
Nice BW work BTW
phx
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