Where the phrase comes from · Card no. 4050
From Genesis, where Cain goes to dwell in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Jonathan Swift made the pun on nodding off in 1738 and the biblical exile has been a nursery word for sleep ever since.
No such place exists, which has never stopped anyone from going. Every card here is an original painting of a phrase, free to send by email or by link.