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A Modest Proposal, a Rare card
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to simply as A Modest Proposal, is a 1729 satirical essay by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 134
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Ranked #1,954 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The essay, written from the perspective of a fictional narrator, suggests that the Irish poor could ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to wealthy gentlemen and ladies.
- In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of deadpan satire.
- The essay begins by describing the plight of Ireland's poor before suggesting that their poverty could be resolved by selling their children to the wealthy.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The A Modest Proposal article was read about 240,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, A Modest Proposal (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jonathan Swift, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
