Ehu

The vices inherent in exu are a caricature of human and social vices.

• Greed: "If you give five exes a feed that would be enough for fifty, then, instead of calmly starting to eat, they start a fight, and everyone tries to capture everything for themselves. <...> Food stolen by them or obtained by robbery somewhere far away, they prefer much better food prepared for them at home. <...> In this country, exu are the only animals that are susceptible to disease; <...> they are all caused not by mistreatment, but by the uncleanliness and gluttony of these vile cattle. ”
• Aggressiveness: “Battles between the exu of neighboring areas begin without any apparent reason; Ekho of one locality in every possible way try to attack neighbors by surprise before they have time to get ready. But if for some reason they fail, they return home and, in the absence of the enemy, tie up what I called the Civil War. ”
• Lustfulness: “I ... stripped naked and calmly entered the water. It happened that a young female ehu, who was standing behind a hillock, was watching me all the time. Inflamed by lust, she quickly ran up and jumped into the water at a distance of five yards from the place where I swam ... The female hugged me in the most obscene way; I screamed at the top of my throat, and with a bay gallop rushed to my rescue; then she with the greatest reluctance released me from her arms and ran out to the opposite bank, where she stood and howled, keeping her eyes on me all the time while I was dressing. ”
• Selfishness: “In some places of this country there come across multi-colored glistening stones, to which the exe have a real passion; and if these stones sit firmly in the ground, as sometimes happens, they dig with their claws from morning to night to pull them out, after which they carry away their prey and bury it in heaps in heaps; they act with extreme caution, constantly looking around for fear that the comrades would not reveal their treasures. <...> The most fierce battles between exu occur most often in fields full of brilliant stones. "
• Power: “In most herds, exu are a kind of rulers <...> who are always the ugliest and most evil in the whole herd. Each such leader usually has a favorite who has an extraordinary resemblance to him, whose duty is to lick his master’s legs and ass and put the females in his lair; in gratitude for this, from time to time he is awarded a piece of donkey meat. The herd hates this favorite, and therefore, for safety, he always keeps close to his master. Usually he remains in power until there is even worse; and as soon as he receives his resignation, as all the exes of this area, young and old, males and females, led by his successor, tightly surround him and surround him from head to toe with his bowel movements. ”
• Addiction to addiction: “Here comes another very juicy root, though very rarely, and it is not easy to find; they carefully search for this root and suck it with great pleasure; he produces the same effect on them as wine does on us. Under his influence, they sometimes kiss, then fight, roar, grimace, mumble something, write out a pretzel, stumble, fall into the mud and fall asleep. ”

The Huigngnms were squeamish about ex, but used them as livestock.

Having lived in the Huigngnm society for some time, Gulliver was imbued with disgust for his fellow humans (chapter X):

When I thought about my family, my friends and my compatriots, or about the human race in general, I saw in people, in their appearance and mental disposition, what they really were - an ex, maybe a little more civilized and endowed with the gift words, but using their minds only to develop and multiply the vices that are inherent in their brothers from this country only to the extent that nature has endowed them.

Swift motifs are clearly felt in many works of Herbert Wells . For example, in the novel “ The Time Machine ” two races of the descendants of modern humans are derived - the disgusting predators, Morlocks , resembling an exe, and their sophisticated victims, Eloi ^{[5] [6] [7]} . In another Wells novel, Mr. Bletsworthy on the Isle of Rampol, the cannibal savage community allegorically depicts the vices of modern civilization.

Yahoo! Corporation Name as its creators explained, also taken from Swift ^{[8] [9]} .

In the story of Jorge Borges “Brody's Message” ( 1970 ), the narration is conducted on behalf of a missionary who discovered during his wanderings in South America an extremely degraded nation. The narrator calls it "exe" because it is not able to reproduce the self-name in a crude roaring language. In his characteristic manner, Borges rethought Swift's idea in the spirit of tragic absurdity; for example, greed for exu jewels from the original work turns into a craving for dirt and sewage, and the “kings” of the tribe in “Brody's Message”, contrary to the original, turn out to be completely helpless cripples and die first in the war with neighboring tribes.

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• Swift, J. Gulliver's Travels at the Moshkov Electronic Library.
• Jonathan Swift Website