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To: LomanBill
This might explain it:

"Lilliputians

The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny existence. Swift fully intends the irony of representing the tiniest race visited by Gulliver as by far the most vainglorious and smug, both collectively and individually. There is surely no character more odious in all of Gulliver’s travels than the noxious Skyresh. There is more backbiting and conspiracy in Lilliput than anywhere else, and more of the pettiness of small minds who imagine themselves to be grand."

Lilliputians

31 posted on 05/05/2011 6:33:29 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge
I think the poster is alluding to "Napoleon complex".

A peronality complex that consists of power trips and false machismo to make up for short height and feelings of inferiority.

38 posted on 05/05/2011 6:50:45 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: Madame Dufarge

Yep. That’s about the size of it.


151 posted on 05/07/2011 5:39:25 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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