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Subject: Gulliver's Travels and ilovebees.com
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After paging through ilovebees.com myself, I found this very odd even for that website. Not sure if anyone else picked up on this, but the website quoted "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.

I got to a page at this address: http://www.ilovebees.com/surg.!store.primary.sector.mem.dmg.0 .3.html

On it I found this passage: "lay down on the Grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remember to have done in my Life, and, as I reckoned, above Nine Hours; for when I awakened, it was just Day-light. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: For as I happen'd to lye on my Back, I found my Arms and Legs were strongly fastened on each Side to the Ground; and my Hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same Manner. I likewise felt several slender Ligatures across my Body, from my Armpits to my Thighs."

That's pulled from the section where Gulliver was tied down by the Lilliputians. I'm not sure how it fits in, or even if it does fit in, but if anyone has any takes on it, I'd be much obliged if they could share them.

Of course I'm looking for logical takes, not stupid comments. I do actually want to solve this, for what it's worth.

[Edited on 7/27/2004 8:17:25 PM]

  • 07.27.2004 8:06 PM PDT
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i think they put that in because the person that is in the dialogue is traped and obviosly Gulliver's Travels a famouse story which has him stuck with an alien species so i guess they used this famous quote (to those that read the book) to give us an idea of what the person feels like/what they are experiensing

  • 07.27.2004 8:16 PM PDT
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Oddly enough, I just finished part one of Gulliver's Travels for my AP English summer assignment. How it relates to Halo 2 is anyone's guess, but I believe it has something to do with the Flood. How big are those little Flood guys? About 6-inches...same as the Lilliputians in the narrative. The passage can refer to semi-consciousness after the Flood has infected a body...the ligatures being the tentacles of the Flood attatching themselves to the host... But then again, the reference can be something waywardly different. The reference could, for example, be a Covenant capture of someone...with Engineers holding down and subduing the victim. It could even be the "new race" perpetrating a similar action...a human soldier is taken captive. Now, when the Lilliputians first came upon Gulliver, they strapped him down, not knowing what his intentions were and what he was capable of. A similar scenario can be transcribed here. The "new race" will want to know what the humans are capable of, and thus capture someone. The Master Chief, perchance? Only time will tell...

  • 07.27.2004 8:34 PM PDT