" That’s what I meant, phalanx,’ he repeated. ‘Phalanstère I expect you mean,’ said Tony Morland courteously, managing at the same time to put half a meringue away in one cheek like a monkey in his desire to impart information. ‘The theory of the phalanstère was begun and put into practice by Fourier, about 1832, but it was never much of a success. He wanted to organise society into bodies called phalanges, who were to live in phalanstère which were a square league. There is a lot more but you wouldn’t understand it. I know about it all because we did it last term.’ ‘I "

― Angela Thirkell , The Brandons (Barsetshire, #7)