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Cockaigne (In London Town)
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382) through the Dali-esque absurdity of works like Land of Cockaigne (illustrated in Unpacking Europe, p. Though More gets credit for entering the term into the lexicon of Western cultural history, the seeds of utopia existed in ancient and biblical sources, where the perfect world was known variously as the Golden Age, the New Jerusalem, the Land of Cockaigne, and, of course, the Garden of Eden. |
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