EU or OU-topia?
Ben Crick
ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Wed Mar 8 08:25:13 EST 2000
On Wed 8 Mar 2000 (20:38:18 +1100), musicke at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> I have been reading the fascinating Dictionary of Biblical Imagery
> [Ryken, Wilhoit and Longman] and find that it implies that Utopia is
> derived from EU and TOPOS and not OU and TOPOS [as asserted by Shorter
> Oxford Dictionary ktl]. I would prefer it to be EU, but had read that it
> is not meant to be "good place" but "no place."
Dear David,
That was my understanding. Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" ("Nowhere" reversed)
is OU TOPIA; Utopia is the ideal EU TOPIA or Shangri-la.
My $0.02
Ben
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