L'Express (Port Louis)
17 April 2008
Hello; good to see you again. "What is 'cloud-cuckoo land'?" This phrase (from the Greek 'nephelokokkygia') can be traced back to 414 BC, and the play The Birds, by Aristophanes. In the play, several characters decide to build a "perfect city" in the clouds. (A perfect community is often described in writing as a 'utopia'; from the title of a book by Sir Tomas More. ...
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