Edited sentence: For uncertain reasons Faulkner had omitted this passage, either because of political sensitivities raised by being an Irish publisher printing an anti-British satire or possibly because the text he worked from didn't include the passage.Isaac Asimov notes in The Annotated Gulliver that Lindalino is composed of double lins; hence, Dublin.It wasn't until 1899 that the passage was finally included in a new edition of the Collected Works.Lindalino represented Dublin and the impositions of Laputa represented the British imposition of William Wood's poor-quality copper currency.Modern editions thus derive from the Faulkner edition with the inclusion of this 1899 addendum.The short (five paragraph) episode in Part III, telling of the rebellion of the surface city of Lindalino against the flying island of Laputa, was an obvious allegory to the affair of Drapier's Letters of which Swift was proud