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What Is Laputa? Is It A Place, A Food, Or Anything Else? Is It Real?

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Laputa is the place we happen to explore in 'Gulliver's Travels', written by Jonathan Swift. After a voyage to Lilliput, the place where people are only 15 centimeters tall, Gulliver sets out to find other new worlds. He finally finds a place where the people are so tall that Gulliver fits into the palm of one of them.

The Laputan farmer who finds Gulliver takes him home and keeps him for sometime. Gulliver is taken care of by the farmer's daughter. Both become friends, and when the farmer decides to take him to the queen's palace, the girl is grieved. On Gulliver's request, the queen allows the girl to stay with Gulliver. Gulliver is kept in complete luxury at the queen's palace. He is given a small box to live in.

He makes out chairs for himself using the queen's hair combings. He makes a comb for himself out of the king's shave stubs and the queen's fingernail. Gulliver requests the Queen to let him have a view of the sea, and she sends a man with him to take care of him. But a giant eagle grasps his box and flies away with it, finally dropping it into the sea. Gulliver is then rescued by normal-sized human beings like himself.
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In my opinion  Laputa means fly or floating Island. LAPUTA Jonathan Swift (An extract from the abridged version of Gulliver’s Travels) in this book the narrator didn't know their language so they want to learn their language to him.One day he found the meaning of Laputa that is fly or floating Island.
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Laputa was a floating island featured in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". It is also a J-Pop band formed in 1993 and there was a Mazda-Laputa car. Being spanish my native language, I must tell you that this word in spanish sounds like "the prostitute", so be careful when using this word in some spanish-speaking country.

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