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HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Irony of Hithlode's Dialogue

Moore added a further layer of irony by keeping up the pretense that the whole dialogue was based on a real encounter. Hithlode's name means purveyor of nonsense and the main river of utopia is called anidris, meaning waterless. To keep up the joke, the book was published with a supposed map of utopia and even an alphabet for its language.

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