Utopia, we are already there, if only we could realise it.

The structure of the novel, News from Nowhere by William Morris,  is not linear but
dialectical. The alienated narrator begins

 

by longing for a new world as he travels home from the League to the "Western

 

 

suburb" of Hammersmith. In his dream he travels from Hammersmith to Bloomsbury

 

and back again. Then comes the upriver journey to Kelmscort. It is June, yet the

 

 

references near the end to "dark days", "shorn fields", "empty gardens", "autumn",

 

and "winter", prepare for an emotional modulation back to shabby Hammersmith.

 

 

We realize chat in one sense the Guest has not gone anywhere, because in the midst

of Hammersmith "he felt as if he were in a pleasant country place- pleasanter, indeed,

than the deep country was as he had known it"

 

 

 

 

The narrative locates utopia in

a future time and place, provides an elaborate circumstantial description of getting

there, yet tells us clearly that utopia is only a projection. We/You  are, if we would only

realise, already there.