From: sicherman@lucent.com (I Fought the Tao and Won) Newsgroups: alt.quotations Subject: Re: Cloud Cuckoo Land Date: 30 Jun 1996 02:29:52 GMTIn <4r3vr2$b7d@orm.southern.co.nz>, cfbd@southern.co.nz wrote: > Anyone know the source of the phrase...Cloud Cuckoo Land ?
Just another remnant of classical education.... It's from one of Aristophanes's best plays, _Birds._ Cloud Cuckoo Land is the utopia that the heroes establish in the air, with the help of the noisy title characters. The phrase has come to mean any theoretical system that is original and wildly impractical (like most of mine), and we may expect it to appear soon as the name of an Internet Service Provider.
-:- "She became for me a rare and fragile object, something burdensome, but very frail. Why it was as if I had been given a thin-shelled pullet's egg to carry on my palm from Equatorial Africa to Hoboken."
--Ford Madox Ford, _The Good Soldier_
-- Col. G. L. Sicherman sicherman@lucent.com
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