Nov. 1st, 2005

rowyn: (studious)
I was recently talking about Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" with a friend (the subject came up after a mention of the Brobdingnagian Bards) and was reminded of an essay in imitation of it that I wrote about ten years ago.

At the time, I was taking a class on 18th Century Literature, and two of the assignments were to do a prose and poetry imitation of 18th century style. I posted the poetry one a couple of years ago, but never did post the prose one.

So I dug it up this morning. Bear in mind that it's an imitation of writing style as well as using the same kind of "propose a horrific solution to a difficult problem" theme. So the sentences are longer and more full of clauses than I'd normally use, for example. Not to mention the capitalization of all nouns. :)
And here it is! )

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