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Laputa

noun
1.
A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected.



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"Laputa" Quotes from Famous Books



... hands of him and his disciples, that they might there realise Plato's ideal republic. Luckily for the reputation of Neoplatonism, the scheme was swamped by the courtiers of Gallienus, and the earth was saved the sad and ludicrous sight of a realised Laputa; probably a very quarrelsome one. That was his highest practical conception: the foundation of a new society: not the regeneration of society ...
— Alexandria and her Schools • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Laputa" :   fictitious place, imaginary place, Laputan, mythical place


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