1. The Restoration and the Early Eighteenth Century
"It happened that a young female Yahoo, standing behind a bank saw the whole proceeding, and inflamed desire, as the nag and I conjectured, came running with all speed, and leaped into the water" (Page 295, Paragraph 1) This incident harshly reminds Gulliver of "who" and "what" he is. ... However, he is aware that despite the "Struldbrug" never dying, they are still cursed with the aging process where their bodies continue to deteriorate. ... "That if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a Struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own happiness by understanding the difference...
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