Gulliver travels Book 3 – Flashcards

A visitor comes to his house asking him to sail aboard his ship in two months time -Gulliver is then attacked by pirates -The Dutch pirate punishes Gulliver by sending him out to sea in a small boat with only four days worth of food

-He finds people on this floating island called Laputa

-their heads are tilted to one side or the other, with one eye turned inward and the other looking up -their clothes are adorned with images of celestial bodies and musical instruments

-made of stick with a pouch tied to the end -to keep their masters minds from wandering off -the servant strikes the ear of the listener and the mouth of the speaker

-Gulliver is struck by the flapper -The King and Gulliver do not speak the same language -Gulliver is taken to an apartment and served dinner

Because the king orders the island to be moved

-they rely heavily on mathematical and musical concepts -they value theoretical disciplines -they hate practical geometry -they make sure their are no right angles in their buildings -they are very good with charts and figures -they are very clumsy in practical matters -they practice astrology and dread changes in the celestial bodies -they are very big on math and music

-the wives are unfaithful -when the women leave Laputa, they never want to come back

He can keep the island above it and deprive the region of sun and rain

He is a lord

Munodi's country house is weird because you first have to pass through many barren fields and then arrive in a lush green area

They wanted to establish an academy and develop new theories on agriculture and construction and to initiate projects to improve the lives of the city's inhabitants

They theories have never produced any results and the new techniques have left the country in ruin

-extracting sunbeams from cucumbers -a scientist trying to excrement back into food -a scientist attempting to turn ice into gunpowder and is writing a treatise about the malleability of fire -an architect is designing a way to build house from the roof down -a blind master is teaching his blind apprentices to mix colors for painters according to smell and touch -an agronomist is designing a method of plowing fields with hogs by first burying food in the ground and then letting the hogs loose to dig it out -a doctor tried to cure patients by blowing air through them

All of these projects were pointless and stupid

Trying to make the language more concise and prolong lives

He gets bored and wants to go back to England

He was getting bored at the academy and wants to go back to England

He tried to travel to Luggnagg but he finds no ship available -he has to has to wait a month so, he is advised to go to Glubbdubdrib

Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Brutus -Also he spends a day with Homer, Aristotle, René Descartes, and Pierre Gasdendi

He can call up any shade he would like (Bring anybody back to life)

-Alexander the great died from excessive drinking -Descartes and Pierre Gassendi freely acknowledge their own mistakes while pointing out that systems of nature will always vary from age to age

So he can gain passage on a Dutch ship from Amsterdam to England

You are expected to lick the floor as you approach the king

They are immortal people -they have a red spot on their foreheads

Struldbrugs grow sad and dejected and by eighty they are incapable of affection and envious of those who are able to die

5 years