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Lilliput and Blefuscu

Lilliput and Blefuscu are the two island nations that appear in the classic novel "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, they lie next to each other. Lilliput and Blefuscu are permenantly at war-the reason for this war was due to the Lilliputian way of eating eggs-from the rounded end, as opposed to the Blefuscan way of eating eggs-from the sharp end. Gulliver[?] ends the war between the two countries.

Lilliput and Blefuscu parodies Britain and France

Lilliput is an island located in the South pacific inhabited by tiny people (the lilliputions) who are "not six Inches high". Lilliputian describes something that is small in stature.

Blefuscu[?] is the island "situated to the North North-East side of Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a Channel of eight hundred Yards wide."



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