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** The title of the third voyage, going through several long and complicated countries' names before ending with Japan.
* [[Black Humor]]: Along with [[Dead Baby Comedy]], a specialty of Swift's.
* [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerisation]]: There have been numerous adaptations of the Lilliputian chapters into children's books with all the naughty stuff and political context stripped out. Similarly, there is a passage in the second voyage where Gulliver describes how because of the size differential [[Refuge in Audacity|he served several Brobdingnagian women as a dildo]]; one can usually only find this sequence in academic or explicitly "unexpurgated" editions.
* [[Can't Argue with Elves]]: The Houyhnhnms, and to a lesser extent, the Brobdingnagians, look down on Gulliver's society as pitiful. Arguably a subversion, however, in that neither of these societies is without significant problems obvious to readers (if not to Gulliver himself).
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: Laputa, the citizens of which devote their lives to math, music, science and philosophy but are utterly ignorant of everyday practicalities.
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