Question

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 (-5[1])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 (10[1])staying (10[1]-5[1])with the Big-Endians. (10[2])This character, who is cast out from a race of talking horses for being (10[1])a Yahoo, (10[1])visits the floating island of Laputa and fails to mediate a dispute between Blefuscu and the six-inch-tall Lilliputians. (10[2])For 10 points, name this man whose “travels” make up a satire by Jonathan Swift. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Lemuel Gulliver [or Lemuel Gulliver; accept Gulliver’s Travels]
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2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia11/11/2023Y9100%0%22%104.67

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Ben SterlingYale ARutgers B42-5
Cooper RohColumbia BBard A8510
Arjun BothraHaverfordPenn B8610
Richard NiuCornell CVassar86-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AYale C8910
Lexi TermanRutgers APrinceton A8910
Tina MaoVassarCornell C10310
Rico-ian BantingNYU BYale B10510
Jupiter DingPrinceton BPenn A12310
Ashish KumbhardareRowan AColumbia C12310
Simon EmmanuelRutgers BYale A13910