Excerpt from Gulliver's Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag Men who write books usually prove to be much like other people in most respects when you can find out enough about them. So it is with Jonathan Swift. His letters reveal him as a man like other men in his hearty love for his friends, his dislike for his enemies, his desire to get ahead in the world, his longing to do good to people in distress. He seems like you and me when he writes on one occasion that he has begun his letter on the wrong side of the pa er and must beg his correspondent to turn to the proper place for the continuation. He seems like a real human being, too, when we find that his friends are not afraid to write to him about their coughs and their petty troubles of all kinds: He shows the inconsistencies and contrarieties that mark most peo le when you come to know them well. He once said that e hated everything with a title except his books; yet we find him in familiar correspondence with lords and ladies, archbishops and cabinet ministers.

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