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So that's his first year.

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The second year, 1947, he tries
to get on top of the materials

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by writing a poem to Jonathan
Swift, in a satirical tone.

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I'll read just a little
of it, trying to get.

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To you, I address
myself, dear Dean,

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asking for your good advice.

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Since we meet infrequently, I
won't close myself in glory.

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You can hear the da-da-da of it.

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I see a greenish ocean
break against a rocky shore.

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The long white
fingers of the surf

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set off the emerald
island handsomely.

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A stone of dark violet shimmers
over Ireland's peateries.

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In houses under hooting owls,
barley sputters in the stew,

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silver braid, a glint of wig,
a goose quill pen drawing maps.

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Not in this way, the people
think, for instruction

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and for art.

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I followed it, sign after sign,
and found the shortcuts useful.

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I visited the Brobdingnagians.

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I skirted the Laputa Isles.

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I also met the
Yahoo tribe living

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in their slavish fear, a
cursed brood of informers

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who adore their excrement.

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My life broke into [INAUDIBLE],,
how he became Gulliver.

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1947.

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