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Me había quedado dormido boca arriba
I had happened to fall asleep on my back
y ahora mis brazos y piernas estaban sujetos al suelo
and now my arms and legs were fastened to the ground
y mi cabello, que era largo y grueso, también estaba atado.
and my hair, which was long and thick, was tied down too
Solo podía mirar hacia arriba
I could only look upwards
El sol comenzó a calentarse
The sun began to grow hot
y la luz lastimó mis ojos
and the light hurt my eyes
Escuché un ruido confuso a mi alrededor
I heard a confused noise around me
pero no podía ver nada excepto el cielo
but could see nothing except the sky
En poco tiempo sentí algo vivo
In a little time I felt something alive
Se movía sobre mi pierna izquierda
it was moving on my left leg
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".
