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I always thought that la-la land referred to Shangri-La that fabled utopia of fiction and film, but I guess that there is a link through filmdom.
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Welcome. It makes me think of la-di-da land.
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Yes, how is it that this week's theme never took us to Shangri-la or [incredibly] to the grandmother of them all -- Utopia?
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I was wondering the same thing myself, thanks for bringing it to the forefront.
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I always thought that la-la land referred to Shangri-La that fabled utopia of fiction and film, but I guess that there is a link through filmdom. Welcome as well
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Yes, how is it that this week's theme never took us to Shangri-la or [incredibly] to the grandmother of them all -- Utopia? perhaps this is why.. from the week of May 10, 2010: This week's words utopia cockaigne shangri-la Garden of Eden Land of Oz- joe (obviousizing the facticity) friday
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See, we already had the old Utopias. Now that we have this dubble list would there be still some paradises we overlooked? Luilekkerland? ( lazy-goodies-land )That was our childhood paradise.
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"Finding shapes in clouds is an old endeavor. There's even a word for it: nephelococcygia, literally cloud cuckooland, from the Aristophanes play The Birds. Thoreau practiced it, describing a sunset in which he saw a "phantom city." About a hundred years later cartoonist Charles Schulz created a Peanuts comic strip in which Linus gazed at the clouds and spied the outline of British Honduras, the profile of artist Thomas Eakins, and a group of forms reminding him of the biblical stoning of Stephen. "I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie," Charlie Brown responded, "but I changed my mind." - Chris Dodge, Utne Reader Jan/Feb 2007
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