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erewhon

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1. Erewhonnoun

   a satirical novel written by Samuel Butler (1872) describing a fictitious land

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1. Erewhon

   Erewhon: or, Over the Range () is a novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand, where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years (1860–64), and explored parts of the interior of the South Island and wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1863). The novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines.

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1. erewhon

   Erewhon is a fictional country created by the British author Samuel Butler in his novel "Erewhon: or, Over the Range." The term Erewhon is a phonetic reversal of the word "Nowhere," hinting at the country's ambiguous and satirical nature. In the novel, Erewhon is portrayed as a utopian society, but with various absurd and unconventional aspects, questioning the norms and values of contemporary Victorian society. Erewhon serves as a critique of social, political, and moral systems, forcing readers to reflect on their own society through a fictional lens.

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1. Erewhon

   Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed where Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country. Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed, therefore Erewhon is an anagram of nowhere. The book is a satire on Victorian society. The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years, and explored parts of the interior of the South Island and which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement. One of the country's largest sheep stations, located near where Butler lived, is named "Erewhon" in his honour. In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified: Nevertheless, the word is occasionally pronounced with two syllables as 'air - one'.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of erewhon in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of erewhon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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