Part III, Chapter 2
Swift's satire of the Royal Society and detached intellectualism divorced from common sense.
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From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver visits Laputa, a flying island of impractical philosophers and mathematicians so absorbed in abstraction they require servants ('flappers') to strike them into attention.
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