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  • "This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehooda poor hoaxthe lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-linerof some wretched concoctor of accidents in Cocaigne.

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  • Lying on the couch in their parents' basement, dreaming of a land of Cocaigne with rivers of Mountain Dew and Cheeto-trees, inhabited entirely by girls -- gone wild!

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  • Lying on the couch in their parents' basement, dreaming of a land of Cocaigne with rivers of Mountain Dew and Cheeto-trees, inhabited entirely by girls -- gone wild!

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  • Art, and convey him to the land of Cocaigne, where they never make, only buy, paintings -- of which articles, in parenthesis, Monsieur Achille had

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  • And in fine, they kept at him until Jurgen was too confused to argue, and his head was in a whirl, and one thing seemed as preposterous as another: and he ceased to notice any especial improbability in his traveling with the Equinox, and so passed without any further protest or argument about it, from Cocaigne to

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • But in Cocaigne there was no regret and no variability, but only an interminable flow of curious pleasures, illumined by the wandering star of Venus Mechanitis.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • "Well, but in Cocaigne," said Jurgen, "this eudæmonism was considered an indoor diversion."

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Thus Jurgen abode for a little over two months in Cocaigne, and complied with the customs of that country.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • But still he was not actually happy, not even among the endless pleasures of Cocaigne.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Cocaigne: but in the world wherein Jurgen was reared, he knew, it would by this time be September, with the leaves flaring gloriously, and the birds flocking southward, and the hearts of Jurgen's fellows turning to not unpleasant regrets.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

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