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Erewhon

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prop. n.1.the fictitious land described in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler.
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Noun1.Erewhon - a satirical novel written by Samuel Butler (1872) describing a fictitious land


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There was a new opera by Louis Applebaum at Victoria, Erewhon, and a tribute to the late Louis Quilico, whose emerging career had been noted in the earliest issues of OC.
The idea of a self-replicating machine can be traced back to remarks made by the Queen of Sweden to René Descartes, but they were more seriously explored in the 19th century by Samuel Butler, who described a machine that could mimic the biological process of plants in his novel Erewhon.
For Cryptanalysts Only The transmitting agency uses a different mode of encipherment for each of its receiver, and that's one hock of a weakness, for on the same day, at approximately the same time, your agents in Erewhon, Ecalpon, and Wohon, have intercepted three different cipher-texts, which you suspect (correctly) all overlie the same short plain-text message.
 
 
 
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