English & Literature
gullivers travels
Then briefly explain the significance (for the main ideas of the work, not the plot) of what the speaker is saying in the quote below.
“I had the evening before drank plentifully of a most delicious wine...By the luckiest chance I had not discharged myself of any part of it...I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly extinguished; and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.”