An Imaginary Community with Meaningful Existence

“I could try to find similarities between them — I could see if Manuland — an imaginary community radiating around the hub of the modern state of Ukraine and stretching from India to Ireland which I now had a name for — had any meaningful existence. I could dispatch the nagging notion that there might be a common meaning in Manuland’s ubiquitously similar sounding towns and villages, once and for all time.”

Source: Journeying · Finding Manuland I

The research question framed as a personal mission. “Dispatch the nagging notion… once and for all time” captures the obsessive quality.

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