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Article: Utopia and geopolitics in Theodor Herzl's Altneuland.

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Utopian Studies
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January 1, 1997
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For some time past I have been occupied with a work of infinite

grandeur. At the moment I do not know whether I shall carry it

through. It looks like a mighty dream. But for days and weeks it has

possessed me beyond the limits of consciousness; it accompanies me

wherever I go, hovers behind my ordinary talk, looks over my

shoulder at my comically trivial journalistic work, disturbs me and

intoxicates me .... If my conception is not translated into reality, at

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