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 == Missing citation == 

 At the end of the first paragraph in ""Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan"", it claims that Jonathan Swift knew that laputa meant whore and did this to attack reason and deism (which I feel needs a bit of further explanation).  I have found a source for it, but I think it needs a bit of revision.  According to the source, Laputa is the name of the Whore of Babylon, which makes much more sense than simply ""the whore"" when it comes to attacks on deism.   

 Here is the source:   http://books.google.com/books?id=J-Tgd49ng_8C&pg;=PA32&lpg;=PA32&dq;=laputa+whore+of+babylon&source;=bl&ots;=KRP5XryScg&sig;=v8E3saxz5qyDiOIbGqTr4VVPIsk&hl;=en&sa;=X&ei;=w9wvT6GUB-umsQLiyaC9Dg&ved;=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q;=laputa%20whore%20of%20babylon&f;=false"