ABSTRACT
Captain Gulliver’s error was swiftly exposed (Swift, 1726). He had just learned of a remarkable phenomenon that occurred at rare intervals in the Land of the Luggnaggians. Every now and then, a baby would be born with a red circular spot on its forehead, directly over the left eyebrow. This was “an infallible mark that it should never die.” These immortals were known as Struldbrugs. There were perhaps eleven hundred Struldbrugs in the kingdom, their numbers having slowly increased over time.
