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Original Title:	A Modest Proposal
ISBN:	1605977276 (ISBN13: 9781605977270)
Edition Language:	English

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Last night my daughter asked me to watch what passes for comedy to pre-teens on Nickelodeon; a show low on laughs but high on laugh track. It's Halloween week and of course the thematic drum of cheap scares and slutty costumes (those of you dads that have 11 year old girls know what it is like to take a knee at the end of the show to have a side-bar chat about this topic alone) plays large when midway through the episode a six year old girl dressed like a failing barrister circa 1735 comes firing on stage screaming at her parents because they got her a Jonathan Swift costume instead of the requested Taylor Swift. This is where I wanted to pause live TV to tell my daughter about the original Swift, about A Modest Proposal - how our current American culture screams for someone like him to write about our never-ending race problem, our soul sucking capitalism-at-any-cost, our failed PAC-fueled political system. But my daughter is 11, I am 45, it's late on Saturday night and I don't have it in me. I watch the Jonathan Swift girl rant and rave and I drool thinking about delicious Irish babies in a white wine sauce.

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Title	:	A Modest Proposal
Author	:	Jonathan Swift
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 48 pages
Published	:	July 4th 2008 by Book Jungle (first published 1729)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Humor. Writing. Essays

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This made me laugh so much. Its just so brilliantly funny. Swift adopts a very serious tone, and an authoritative voice, that almost sounds real. He delivers his proposal in such a hilariously cold way that embodies a dejected government official. I could imagine him writing this whilst struggling to keep a straight face as he mocks the English law makers. The rich looked down upon the poor and saw them as a deplorable sub species of human, which is rather ironic because without poverty there

Can you believe this guy? I realize that this was, like, a long time ago and things were different back then. Like, less civilized and they didn't value life like we do today and stuff. But omg, seriously! For all intensive purposes, this guy Swift was crazy. After I read this I literally cut my own head off.So apparently in the eighteenth century (and by the way, isn't it so stupid that it's called the eighteenth century when it was the 1700s? that makes like no sense at all), there was a lot

FIRST THING IVE READ IN MONTHS AND IT FEELS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

I continue to think that this supremely logical and inevitably practical work will become a part of American legislation any day now. You know, right after the FEMA camps have a permanent place in the common zeitgeist. Anyone want a potato?Update 11/19/15:It occurs to me that someone ought to write a cookbook to expound upon this most excellent suggestion. Any takers? Julia Childs? Hannibal Lector? Rush Limbaugh? So many excellent suggestions, I know, I know.

I immediately thought of A Modest Proposal last week when Dr. Oz told Hannity that "Schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece

there is no better way to kick off a semester of literature than a modest proposal. one smart ass student always tries to derail the conversation with an early declaration of the proposals satire, but no one listens, and within moments i have a class of fifty - sixty students angry, frustrated, and sometimes rabid as i take swifts ironic side and ask the students, with all the seriousness i can muster (which is quite a bit), if we shouldnt give it a try? i follow that up with why not? after why

I came across this essay via Scribble's review and read it in no time. I thought it would be light reading and it turned out to be something completely different. Satire at its best from Mr Swift.I read this in the dentist's waiting room this morning and it certainly waylaid my normal fear of going there. The author has come up with a "modest" (nothing modest here) proposal to aid the Irish economy, stop the begging, give mothers (the breeders) the opportunity to get an income by selling their