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Kakania is a triple pun. It's also a country of peasants' paradise in european folklore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by thriftwy 9y ago
Kakania is a triple pun. It's also a country of peasants' paradise in european folklore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockaigne
I'm not even sure it was ever about excrement actually.
- scandox 9y agoI would have imagined Musil was thinking of the Greek kakistos (κάκιστος; worst). This is for example the root of the word Kakistocracy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy