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phoenix827 said:

intenseimages said:

Smokey said:

Hmmmm, yeah Xanadu, the exotic pleasure palace in Coleridge's 1816 poem "Kubla Kahn"

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when he wrote the poem "Kubla Kahn", the actual poem came to him in a dream. after he awakened he sat down and started writing the poem.
sometime during the writing of the poem he was interrrupted by someone arriving at his house., after his visitors left, he sat down to continue writing and could not remember the rest of what he dreamed. this is the reason this poem is unfinished.

eric

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I was told it was an "opium induced stupor". Not a dream. But I suppose at that stage what difference did it make to him?

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Smokey said:

Sorry, intense... that wasn't a typo.... remember I'm the kid that ate the dictionary when three ,
and has been coughing up wierd words ever since...

I meant pogrom not program

Definition: "Pogrom - an organized massacre"

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thesasquach said:

I like that Smokey ...... there isnt many times when im at a loss for a word. ......... thank you David

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McGuyver said:

Smokey,

I recall some lines from a Rush song talking about that.

Something about living beneath the pleasure dome, yadda, yadda yadda, decreed by kubla kahn, blah blah blah dine on honey dew, and drink the milk of paradise, blah blah blah, etc, etc. Don't remember anything else. But I always got the impression that Xanadu was some kind of Greek idea of eternal paradise.

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