Obsessed from his childhood with Jonathan Swift's story of Lemuel
Gulliver's travels, Arthur C. Gulliver is committed to an asylum
for his pestiferous soliciting to raise funds for an insane voyage
to the fictitious land of Lilliput. But, with the aid of two other
inmates, he manages to realize his dream and sail to
Lilliput.
The Lilliput Arthur finds in the mid 1930s is much different than
Lemuel Gulliver's. The monarchy is gone. Lilliputians zoom across
land and sea in spheres of transparent steel. Spanking is the
Lilliputian method of formal greeting. Drunkenness is required by
law. Skyscrapers hang gracefully suspended in mid-air. Politicians
pay voters directly and openly for their votes. The military wields
a fantastic paralytic ray. Nights in the city are lit by small
artificial suns created by great beams of light. And, a mysterious
third chamber in the tricameral legislature dominates Lilliputian
government.
In the mid-1930s, Joseph Martin Cunningham wrote this sequel to
Gulliver's Travels. Intended as a political satire about the
follies of America during the Great Depression, it seems
surprisingly topical today. The comical parodies of Wall Street's
financial scandals, the influence of lobbyists, the Congressional
reconciliation process, earmarks, and political financing seem to
be drawn out of today's headlines.
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