Brobdingnag

It is worth remembering that the decidedly non-European nations of Lilliput and Brobdingnag did not receive such comparisons.

Over twenty years ago I did not even know this word and I felt like a fish in water, like Gulliver visiting the queen of Brobdingnag, when I pored over your image for hours, as if over a forbidden photograph.

Liliput y Brobdingnag son dos reinos, menudo el uno e inmenso el otro.

Jamoussi's reading of Gulliver's Travels certainly includes the political but pride of place is taken by a discussion of Gulliver's physical confinement (tied to the ground, kept in a box) in Lilliput and Brobdingnag.

The story grows more desperate as it goes on, squeezing in a visit to the super-sized land of Brobdingnag and an inexplicable robot battle en route to a goofy cover of Edwin Starr's anti-Vietnam anthem "War.

Were it not for a brief foray into a land of giants that we assume to be Brobdingnag, Letterman''s adventure would be merely Gulliver''s Travel.

THE LAST time I visited Cibo -- the Italian restaurant at the sprawling backyard of Hotel Janpath -- I could not decide what made me more uncomfortable: the humongous sculptures that, in the evening light, seemed like imports from Brobdingnag, the fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels , or the rather commonplace food dished out by the Italian chef.

As though the gallery-goer can traverse the kingdoms of Lilliput and Brobdingnag with a mere stride, the miniature statue is placed next to a gigantic set of worry beads, made up from spheres the size of cannonballs.

Also, he does not discuss the dialogue with the Oyarsa in terms of Gulliver and the King of Brobdingnag and of Cavor and the Grand Lunar.

Although one probably doesn't think about Gullliver's Travels in relation to metrology, when it comes to measuring the very small--as in the micro--or meso-scale--it is not inappropriate to consider Gulliver among the people of Brobdingnag, where he was very small and what we consider to be somewhat insignificant in size takes on enormous scale.

And a desire for verisimilitude undoubtedly led Jonathan Swift to include five quite plausible maps in Gulliver's Travels (1726), including one that tacked the fictitious land of Brobdingnag on to the actual coast of northern California.

En el segundo de los viajes Gulliver arriba a Brobdingnag y el autor invierte h escala manteniendo el punto de vista anterior.

Dublin-born author, priest and satirist whose most famous work is Gulliver's Travels - the tale of a surgeon's adventures in the lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the country of the Houyhnhnms, published in 1726.

What's ironic about this is that these institutions--Citigroup, Bank of America, AIG--used to be (if we continue with Gulliver for a while) inhabitants of Brobdingnag, the land populated by giants who were 60 feet tall.

After he escaped Lilliput Island, he encountered the giants on Brobdingnag Island.