Gulliveriana

I soon realized the terror of this place: they are perfectly rational, perfectly orderly, and entirely devoid of human empathy. I found myself longing for the simple brutality of the Yahoos in my previous travels, for at least they knew they were beasts. The inhabitants of Logica believe themselves gods.

Modernizing the target of satire (e.g., surveillance, obsession with data/efficiency).

This text imagines a "lost" fifth voyage, focusing on the satiric tradition where Gulliver observes a society that has taken modern rationalism to an absurd extreme, paralleling the original's critique of "reason run amok". Draft Text: The Voyage to the Isle of Data October 14, 172— Gulliveriana

Similar to the Houyhnhnmland paradox where "rational" horses were cold, the inhabitants of this island are "logical" but monstrous.

as she waits for him to return?

Upon landing, I was apprehended not by soldiers, but by diminutive philosophers holding small polished slates, which they constantly consulted. They were citizens of .

Mirroring Swift's matter-of-fact tone to describe impossible/absurd scenarios. I soon realized the terror of this place:

Based on the concept of —referring to the genre of imitations, continuations, and adaptations of Jonathan Swift's 1726 masterpiece Gulliver's Travels —