Discuss the obsessions of Laputans in atleast 150 words.
The Laputan phraseology depended upon science and music, their ideas were perpetually conversant in lines and figures. For instance, they praised the beauty of a woman or any other animal, by describing it in terms of rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music. There were all sorts of mathematical and musical instruments in the kitchen of the king which they used to cut up the joints that were served to his majesty's table. Their houses were ill built, this arose out of their distaste for practical geometry which they considered to be vulgar and mechanic. The instructions which they have were too refined for the intellects of their workmen and that occasioned perpetual mistakes in the construction of their houses. The Laputans were dexterous on a piece of paper, in the management of the rule, pencil and divider, but in common actions and behaviour of life, they were clumsy, awkward as well as unhandy, quite slow and perplexed in their conceptions upon all other subjects except those of mathematics and music. They were bad reasoners and vehemently opposed to opposition unless when they happened to be of the right opinion which was seldom the case. Imagination, fancy and invention were alien concepts to them because they did not have any such words in their language through which related ideas could be expressed. The whole compass of their thoughts and mind was shut up in the aforementioned sciences, mathematics and geometry. Most of them who dealt with the astronomical part, had great faith in judicial astrology although they were wont to accept that in public. They also had a strong disposition towards news and politics, inquiring into public affairs, giving their judgments in matters of state and passionately disputing every inch of a party opinion. The women of the island had an abundance of vivacity, they condemned their husbands and preferred being convivial with strangers. The ladies chose their gallants but they acted with too much ease and security for their husbands cared not much for anything outside of the ambit of the sciences.