Read the passage from gulliver's travels.

there was a man born blind, who had several apprentices in his own condition: their employment was to mix colours for painters, which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling. it was indeed my misfortune to find them at that time not very perfect in their lessons, and the professor himself happened to be generally mistaken. this artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity.

which analysis does the passage support?

swift uses understatement to emphasize the talent of the artists.
swift uses understatement to highlight the beauty of the art.
swift uses a false premise to create humor.
swift uses a false premise to create pathos

in this alternate universe, renaissance romeo is now seventeen, an apprentice to a glass maker in venice. modern romeo is planning to go to college. what major do you think he’ll elect?

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.