January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
3h 45m
English
Today we are bombarded with messages from every quarter. So it is hard to be heard. A lateral way to draw attention to your creative idea is to be outrageously provocative.
Reverend Jonathan Swift was a prominent and satirical Anglo-Irish author, best known for Gulliver’s Travels. In 1729 he published an essay entitled A Modest Proposal, in which he suggested that the poor should sell their children to the rich for them to eat. He wrote: ‘A healthy young child is a delicious, nutritious and healthy food, whether cooked, roasted, baked or boiled.’ He then listed the economic and social benefits. A great many people were outraged. Some took it seriously. It was only later in the essay that ...
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