Jonathan Swift (1726). Gulliver's Travels. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels/Part_I/Chapter_IV. Läst 19 maj 2012. ”Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. (...) the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; (...) the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. (...) Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden (...)”