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Comment by JKCalhoun

2 days ago

"Erewhon" oddly close to "nowhere" spelled backwards.

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mkl  2 days ago

Hardly odd; it's intentional. There are quite a few backwards and anagram words and names in the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

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