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He called it Utopia, a Greek word meaning there is no such place.
-QuevedoNo two hills are alike, but everywhere on earth plains are one and the same. I was making my way in such country, asking myself, not that it really mattered, if this were Oklahoma or Texas or the part of the Argentine that literary men called the pampa. Neither to right nor left did I see a fence. As on other occasions, I slowly repeated these lines by the poet Emilio Oribe: At the heart of the endless awesome plain and close by the border of Brazil.