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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

I Want Some Cockaigne

My new favorite Wikipedia article:

Cockaigne

According to Herman Pleij, Cockaigne is a place where:

roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where all the restrictions of society are defied, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available (nuns flipped over to show their bottoms), and all people enjoy eternal youth.

Cockaigne was a, "medieval peasant’s dream, offering relief from backbreaking labor and the daily struggle for meager food."

Hell yeah.

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