“But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”This saith the King of Brobdingnag in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. That is not a very flattering thing to say about humans. The evidence? He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him … [Read more...] about Little Odious Vermin
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
