In this first quarter of the book, Swift mentions Gulliver taking a giant whiz no less than three different times, the last of which involves him putting out a fire at the royal palace with his pee. The Queen understandably refuses to live in that part of the palace again after the incident.
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This was intended to post as a reply to fishamaphone‘s early comment.
No good deed goes unpunished in Lilliput…
By the way, what is she sitting on? õ_o
Also, what has she been doing for laundry all this time? Wearing the same clothes without a good laundering on a regular basis is bad for the skin, at the very least.
It’s in there, although the versions published for school-age kids are heavily edited.
I’ve even seen a televised version where Gulliver puts out the fire. The queen is graciously waving from a balcony at the cheering people, believing it to be all for her miraculous survival — and then she looks up to see where the water’s coming from. The watching crowd took it a LOT better than she did! ^^
Yeah, that was in the remarkably good mini-series staring Ted Danson that I linked to with the first comic. It’s available for streaming on Netflix if anyone is curious.
I never liked that queen. So snooty and ungrateful. :p
I’m pretty sure I read Gulliver as a kid, and I say that because I have vague memories involving pigs looking for truffles, and a land where they print books by gluing random words to random pages, and I don’t think I ever saw any adaptation that strayed too far from Lilliput (there aren’t too many that even get as far as Brobdingnag)…
But I don’t seem to recall that much urine being involved.