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Utopia by Thomas More

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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How can you tell the difference between a literary utopia and a literary dystopia?

I’m tempted to answer that people are happy in the utopia and miserable in the dystopia. I beg to disagree. I took the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia to re-read a book I first tackled at age 18. And I must say that this utopia seems like an awful…

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