What did Gulliver find out about the immortals of Luggnagg?
- Every now and again, a child will be born with a mark on its forehead, over its left eyebrow, which shows that it will never die. These are the struldbrugs.
- Gulliver is really excited to find a country where every child has a chance of being born immortal.
- Gulliver lives in Luggnagg for three months, but decides that, overall, it will be safer to go home to his wife and kids.
- As soon as a struldbrug turns 80, he is dead in terms of the law, so all of his money goes to his heirs – he's totally poor.
- Struldbrug marriages are also dissolved at 80, since they would make the couple so much more unhappy.
- At 90, they start losing their teeth, so they don't enjoy eating anymore.
- Their memories get bad enough that they can't read without forgetting, at the end of a sentence, how it began.
- Because language evolves with time, older struldbrugs can't understand younger people at all.
- They have to beg for money, since otherwise, they must get by on a tiny state allowance.
- Gulliver feels ashamed of wishing to be a struldbrug, since being one is so completely awful.
- At the same time, the Luggnaggian King does remind him that the sight of astruldbrug cures everyone of fear of death.