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It is a superb land, a country of Cockaigne, as they say, that I dream / of visiting with an old friend. A strange land, drowned in our northern / fogs, that one might call the East of the West, the China of Europe; a / land patiently and luxuriously decorated with the wise, delicate / vegetations of a warm and capricious phantasy.
A true land of Cockaigne, where all is beautiful, rich, tranquil, and / honest; where luxury is pleased to mirror itself in order; where life is / opulent, and sweet to breathe; from whence disorder, turbulence, and the / unforeseen are excluded; where happiness is married to silence; where / even the food is poetic, rich and exciting at the same time; where all / things, my beloved, are like you.