In "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, Lemuel Gulliver encountered many inventors with foolish inventions on the island of Balnibarbi, including a device for randomly creating sentences so that even people with no talent can write books. Thus predicting generative AI several centuries early.
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And now for some fun with classical music. Telemann wrote this suite in 1728, two years after the Jonathan Swift classic was published, and it humorously refers to some of his creations with the music.
"Intrada Suite for Two Violins (The Gulliver Suite)," composed by Georg Philipp Telemann, performed here by uncredited artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep1FdFpqU4I
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"The governor and his family are served by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his skill in necromancy, he could call whom he pleases from the dead.... [The servants' countenances] made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express."
- Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"
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The Expedition to the Borderlands
A Visit to the Outer Reaches of Transorangoria
(Editor’s Note: Below is the most recent account I received concerning the travels of my dear friend, Professor Jontavious Lento Midgewell)
At the farthest reaches of Transorangoria, beyond the Lavender Highlands and the whispering groves of the Silentwood, lies the Great Barrier — a structure so immense it slices the sky like a blade forged of marble and myth. It is said, in official chronicles and embroidered tapestries, that the Barrier was conjured into existence by the sheer will and focused eyebrows of Ochre Veneficus, the first and only Arch-Reformer of Transorangoria. Though some whisper in tea houses and behind curtains that the wall may be more conceptual than structural — a magnificent illusion maintained by tradition, bureaucracy, and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge maps drawn by outsiders.
Read more on Medium at the link below:
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
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'Gulliver’s Travels': New TV Adaptation is in the Works!! #GulliversTravels, #UbertoPasolini
https://movizark.com/2025/03/26/gullivers-travels-new-tv-adaptation-is-in-the-works/
‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Set for ‘Fun’ TV Series Adaptation With ‘Full Monty’ Producer Uberto Pasolini as Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)
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Depending upon one's definition, either John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) or Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) could be called the first English fantasy novel. They both provide numerous imaginary continents, along with maps for context.
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"Gulliver's Travel Mug" by Wrong Hands: https://wronghands1.com/2024/08/06/gullivers-travel-mug/ #GulliversTravels #coffee #travel #JonathanSwift
Depending upon one's definition, either John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) or Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) could be called the first English fantasy novel, presenting a world with unique geography. Maps have been part of fantasy novels from the beginning.
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#GulliversTravels is the reason why one of the moons of Mars, Deimos, has a crater called after #Swift
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/08/17/swifts-crater/
The section of #GulliversTravels that *may* be a comment by Swift on Francis Hutcheson's "On Laughter" (which quoted Swift's poem "A Description of a City Shower").
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/03/reciprocal-referencing/
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This week, a new game confuses AI by making it think everything is cheese, and the guys get to know…The Wu-Tang Clan’s Christ Bearer.
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On the sorcerer's island of Glubbdubdrib, Gulliver encounters a necromancer who is able to reanimate corpses. Is "Gulliver's Travels" the first time necromancy refers to specifically reanimating corpses as opposed to speaking with ghosts or using bones to predict the future?
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"The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his skill in necromancy he has a power of calling whom he pleases from the dead, and command their service for twenty-four hours.... [The servants' countenances] made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express."
-Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"
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On his third voyage, Lemuel Gulliver encountered many inventors with foolish inventions on the island of Balnibarbi, including a device for randomly creating sentences so that even people with no talent can write books. Thus predicting AI Chat several centuries early.
#WyrdWednesday #fantasy #literature #gulliverstravels
