From the Department of Imaginary Geography:

"...An admirable land whose omission from political atlases I could, if need be, explain by hazarding the hypothesis that, since happy peoples have no history, prosperous countries have no geography."

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#CCLS2026: 9th Talk is"Where Empires End: Geography of the Poetic Formula ‘from A to B’" by @tonyamart.bsky.social, @artjomshl.bsky.social, & @plechac.bsky.social, examining the #ImaginaryGeography of the poetic formula “from place_a to place_b” across 6 languages.

Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud...