...when they meet in the street, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation Jbr an hour together, then put up their implements, help...other to resume their burdens, and take their leave. (Swift, Gulliver's Travels) We do not share the mistrust of language but, unfortunately, there are...

...attend him.214 I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us; who, when they met in the streets...their implements, help each other to resume their burthens, and take their leave. But, for short conversations, a man may carry implements in his pockets...

...attend him. I have often beheld two of these sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us; who, when they met in the streets,...each other to resume their burdens, and take their leave.4 Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke had all, it is true, rejected the external object as relevant...

...becomes an objectivated commerce between individuals, another traded display of portable property: 'like Pedlars among us, who when they met in the Streets,...their Implements, help each other to resume their Burthens, and take their Leave' (III, v, 158). In parodic transformation a culture of commodities produces...

...of things. "I have often beheld two of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of their Packs, like Pedlars among us, who when they met in the Streets,...their Implements, help each other to resume their Burthens, and take their Leave."" Annotation by means of things, like replacing edited texts by material...

...his back ... I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us: who, when they met in the streets,...together; then put up their implements, help each other resume their burthens, and take their leave.7 have names (chapter 8). This revelation probably caused...

...Gulliver often observed these academics "almost sinking under the weight of their packs . . . [and] who when they met in the streets, would lay down their...their implements, help each other to resume their burthens, and take their leave." it is not surprising that the women of Balnibarbi, "in conjunction...

...of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of their Packs, like Peddlers among us; who when 172 they met in the Streets would lay down their Loads,...their Implements, help each other to resume their Burthens, and take their Leave. But for short Conversations a Man may carry Implements in his Pockets...

...have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like peddlers among us; who, when they met in the streets, would...other to resume their burdens, and take their leave. Of course, the idea that we might prefer to converse in "things" rather than "words" may strike us...

...attend him. I have often beheld two of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of their Packs, like Pedlars among us; who, when they met in the Streets,...their Implements, help each other to resume their Burthens, and take their Leave. (211-12) Swift is, of course, satirizing simplistic ways of understanding...