December 9, 2012
1:20-1:40
Gulliver's Travels
Pages: 165-172

He meets the king of the people. The people are very strange and  the men are obsessed with mathematics and musical instruments. They have their food cut into geometrical shapes and music instruments and are always worring about the sun leaving or the earth being hit by a comet and the earth will be destroyed. The women on the other hand are much more relaxed and want to venture down to the continent below them instead of staying on the floating island.

The main conflict is him not being understood and not understanding. Although he finally gets a tutor to teach him some words, there is still the fact that they can't understand each other fully since the king is only interested in the two sciences and has no interest in anything else.

I read well today because I was able to concentrate on the book although the language was somewhat difficult.