Tag: struldbrugs
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Gulliver at Luggnagg — Learning about the immortal struldbrugs (abridged)
The Luggnaggians are a polite and generous people . . . they show themselves courteous to strangers. One day . . . I was asked by a person of quality, “whether I had seen any of their struldbrugs, or immortals?” . . . He told me “that sometimes, though very rarely, a child happened to…