Dear Sofia,
did you read that article about a scientist claiming that Laputa never existed? He wrote (it seems) that Laputa was just a kind of metapher, "a city, not really existing, but as a model in the sky", and the sky is taken as a metapher for the world of Plato's ideas. The wreck of Laputa, its remainings of the battle in which it was destroyed he interprets as the remaining of something completly different, it is, he claims, the remainings of an early sumerian attempt to build a dimensional portal to Aldemarin, the Alpha of Cephei. I think this to be rather grotesque, as it would force us to believe that the theory of dimensional portals was known to the sumerians, in spite of the fact that they obviously didn't even know wireless telegraphy.

Yours,
John