As I read the first part of Gulliver's travels I noticed that it all goes on pretty fast, and the description is very simple, but what surprised me most and almost made me laugh, was how little enthusiastic Gulliver is with his descriptions of the Liliputians. There is no use of exclamation marks at all, which would've helped give emotion to the reading. He says it as if it was absolutely normal to encounter a whole country of six-inch tall people, which to me is funny.
"I was so completely thrilled and amused."...Really? If at least he used more exclamation marks or described his "amusement" more, then maybe the reader would think he really was amused, but a description like that is not very convincing. I'm not sure what the author means with that structure, but maybe he's trying to tell us that we are not sufficiently excited with our discoveries, and that we should enjoy them more, or is it irony? Saying that he's completely excited in the least exciting way possible?
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