“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.”

Ruth Gendler

MYTOLOGHY

Gulliver's Travels

(1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.

MOVIES

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and released through Walt Disney Pictures and Silver Screen Partners III, the film tells the story of a professor who accidentally shrinks his kids and his neighbor's kids to 1/4 of an inch with his electro-magnetic shrink ray and sends them out into the backyard with the trash.

 Uptown Girls is a 2003 comedy film directed by Boaz Yakin and adapted from the story by Allison Jacobs into screenplay by Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz. 

5.7A grown-up woman, who kept her childish instincts and behavior, start working as a nanny of a 8-year-old girl, who actually acts like an adult. But in the end everything turns to its right places.

Ronald "Ron" Mueck

Ronald "Ron" Mueck (born 1958) is an Australian hyperrealist sculpture working in the United Kindom. Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. Mueck’s work is always out of scale from reality. His figures are either oversized or undersized. They strive for super realism, but there is a psychological confrontation between these two contradictory realities, the effort to deceive by perfection, and the obvious discrepancy of scale. Ron Mueck’s work is sculpture. He does not make models, giant or tiny puppets.

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Mutt and Jeff

Mutt and Jeff is an American newspaper comic strips created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907. It is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip. The concept of a newspaper strip featuring recurring characters in multiple panels on a six-day-a-week schedule had previously been pioneered through the short-lived A Piker Clerk by Clare Briggs, but it was Mutt and Jeff as the first successful daily comic strip that staked out the direction of the future trend.

LARGE&SMALL in the world

Indo-European languages:

-Hellenic languages:

Greek: μεγάλο / μικρό

-Germanic languages:

German: Groß / klein

Deutsch: Groot / klein

English: Large / Small

-North Germanic languages:

Danish: Stor / lille

Swedish: Stor / liten

Norwegian: Stor / liten

-Slavic lenguages:

Russian: Большой / маленький

Bulgarian: Големи / малки

-Baltic languages:

Lithuanian: didelis / mažas

-Indo-Iranian languages:
Hindi: बड़े / छोटे
-Romance languages:

Italian: Grande / Piccolo

Franch: Grande / Petit

Spanish: Grande / Pequeno

Portuguese: Grande / Pequeno

Romanian: Mari / Mici

In the biggest part of Romance languages, the ethimology of the word "grande" begin from latin. Latin: grandis
grandis, grandis grande
agg. II cl.|adj. II cl.|adj. II cl.
grandis natu old (adj.)
large, big (adj.)
extended (adj.)
In all Romances Languages "grande" from the latin word "grandis" has the same meaning:

Large = Grande

1. A big, big, large.

2. (about a person) growth, developed, high.

3. adult, elderly, old.

4. (about a space) large, spacious, extended.

5. (about force) strong, powerful, violent.

6. (obout a thing, a person or act) grand, important, extraordinary, significant.

7. (about style and orator) sublime, elevated, solemn.

8. great things, lofty concepts, high subjects.

While the ethimology of the adjective "small" in the most part of Romance Languages take is origin from celtic-gaelic word "picc<pitt<pett"

Small = Piccolo, Petit, Pequeno, Pequenas

     1.(about a thing or a person, quantity, power, intensity) less than the ordinary measure.

ex. a small head, a small group of followers, he lives in a small apartment.

     2. (about stature or size) which is smaller than one thing of the same species.

ex. a small man, a small dog.

     3. of a few years.

     4. Petty

     5. baby, child.

     6. Poppy of an animal.

     7. In particular, something that is much less than assumed as an implicit standars of comparison.

ex. the small industrial area, the small screen (an expression used for the first time in 1957 by Popo Pius XII to indicate the television and its programs.)

     8. by extension, poor, small.

     9. to have a small sum, short-lived: a short break

Semitic-Afroasiatic languages:

-Hebrew: גדול / קטן

-Aramenian: մեծ / փոքր

-Arabic: كبير/  صغير

Sino-Tibetan languages:

-Chinese:  小 / 大

Japonic Languages:

-Japanese: 大 / 小