[UA] Euphemistic Names for Other Worlds

Nick Wedig mrteapot at onebox.com
Mon Apr 8 22:09:38 PDT 2002


> To go for more pop cultural references than mythological I've got...
> 
> The Promised Land
> Across the Great Divide
> Outside
> The Nearest Faraway Place
> The Great Highway
> the Open Road

I forgot to list "The Western Lands", as it's a fairly common term for
the afterlife (ancient Egypt and China seem to share it, anyway)

Mr. Teapot
"oh, somobody's fucking with my mummy!" - William S. Burroughs 

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