Taking a break from Milton, I decided to graph via Gephi "Section II" of Swift's A Tale of a Tub (pp.34-43). In setting up this network, I made nodes of not just human characters but also of objects and things these characters interacted with in some fashion. I have included as nodes the narrator/Tale-teller and the footnote commentators whom Swift added to the margins of his text; the reason for this is because the Teller and annotators frequently express commentary on the text's content, such that they interpretively interact with the Tale-teller's Tale. I added the "reader" as another node because the Tale-teller delights in directly addressing readers of his work. I should further note that the interactions I have assigned are not all the same in the terms of "coverage." By this, I mean that the story will cover or narrate a particular interaction in more detail and other interactions in less detail. For example, the interactions of the three brothers, Peter, Martin, and Jack, with the shopkeepers is mentioned in passing detail, yet their interactions with the written will is narrated at length. Perhaps the Gephi program has a way of assigning value to the interactions. Despite this shortcoming, the network visualizations produce a fascinating constellation of interconnecting nodes. One of the things one can say in general about Swift's Tale is that reading the multiple references, the Tale-teller's crazed and pompous discourse, and the marginal footnotes, among other things, gives the reader a confusing and disconcerting experience, and a network reading of just these interconnecting nodes perhaps adds to and enhances the perplexity.

Below is the network visualization in two different versions. I ran the Force Atlas 2 layout protocol and set the gravity at 30 and the scaling at 150 in order to get these more spread out images. I have not yet figured out how to manipulate the node size according to rank or to the amount of arrows, so I just resized manually only five of the nodes (Teller's Tale, the will that the father leaves behind, Peter, Martin, and Jack) into arbitrary sizes. On that note, I see that there is a level of judgment needed in identifying a node and an edge/connection. There are undoubtedly more connections within the section I examined, though I thought to limit myself to just these 28 nodes.