Part I, Chapter 5
Comic and crude moment satirizing royal ingratitude and arbitrary court protocol.
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From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver puts out a fire in the Empress's palace by urinating on it, saving the building but giving lasting offense to the court, a key example of Swift's scatological satire.
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