wings

I read Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift when I was about 9. It was hard. I grew to hate it. But I was aware that it expanded my vocabulary like nothing else ever has. It had strange words that I know now but at the time didn't even know how to sound out in my head - words like 'whereas'. 

I also had no appreciation for its satire. I just read it as a fantasy story. But it's a brilliant piece of political satire. For example, Gulliver recounts that, in one of the lands he visits, there was a war between those who crack their soft-boiled eggs at the narrow end and those who cracked the wide end. 

I don't know why we feel like we have to adhere to one side or the other.