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A Modest Proposal: The Original 1729 Edition
Jonathan Swift thought that England's anti-poverty proposals were so outrageously evil that nothing short of an absurd parody of them would suffice. His "Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick" is presented with a completely straight face. The irony is this: in the three centuries since, humanity has made it increasingly difficult to find evils so absurd that no one would actually attempt them, leaving modern-day Swifts with little material to work with anymore.
Book Details
- Publisher: Suzeteo Enterprises
- Publish Date: May 1st, 2018
- Pages: 36
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.25in - 0.42lb
- EAN: 9781947844469
- Categories: • Political• Demography• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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What people are saying
ER Doc ret. Politics, dogs, cats, cooking. All MAGA, antivax, forced birth, 3rd party morons and fascist assholes; blocked. Mansplaining: case by case basis.
@HPalmerlll I did love the Jonathan Swift reference. "a modest proposal", totally went over Tacopina's head and then he got all mad and sad and demanded a mistrial. Honestly, I don't know how anyone is gonna pitch a movie or tv show going forward.
@AP reporter | Law enforcement, courts, prisons, Trump | @NewsMediaGuild | Past @citizensvoice @longislandernws @HofstraU | DMs 📭 || Tips: https://t.co/LykatZxrvV
Judge Lewis Kaplan: "Jonathan Swift was an English writer of considerable note... And he wrote a book, a play, an article, I couldn't tell you today called, A Modest Proposal, and it was about how to solve some dreadful social problem affecting the British then empire." 🇮🇪☹️