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A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift I can't think why I've never read this before. Maybe I never did because I knew what it was and didn't feel that I had to. If one were teaching English, it would have to be the textbook on satire, wouldn't it? The thing that strikes me most, is how angry Swift must have been when he wrote it, watching his country die at the hands of the British. Or perhaps it's just anger remembered in a moment of calm.Really makes me want to slap some modern writers upside the head (college essayists are particularly egregious) and show them what it is like to be truly edgy.I own a copy.