The Peculiar Customs of Lilliput

Gulliver has travelled to Lilliput, where the tiny people have some very strange customs. Though far from ignorant, they write diagonally across the page, and they bury their dead head downwards, believing that on Judgment Day the earth will flip upside down, and thus they will rise from the dead standing on their feet.

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