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Re: Czech tale about maps
John Cloud <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 22 Oct 1993 08:34:44 EDT
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There's also Herman Melville's comment in Moby Dick, about
Koko-Voko, the South Sea Island home of Quee-queg the harpooner:
"Koko-voko lies far away to the West and South.  It isn't down on any map.
True places never are."

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