This character listens to two professors debate whether to tax people for their vices or their virtues after watching a group of schoolboys turn an iron crank and read out the resulting word permutations. That device, “The Engine,” is demonstrated to this character while at an Academy of Projectors in Lagado. This character takes shelter under a tree while fleeing savage humanoid creatures, but they climb it and defecate on him. This non-French character breaks a law by putting out a fire with his urine while staying with the Big-Endians. This character, who is cast out from a race of talking horses for being a Yahoo, visits the floating island of Laputa and fails to mediate a dispute between Blefuscu and the six-inch-tall Lilliputians. For 10 points, name this man whose “travels” make up a satire by Jonathan Swift. ■END■
ANSWER: Lemuel Gulliver [or Lemuel Gulliver; accept Gulliver’s Travels]
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