tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248515008776497550.post7083535361624072937..comments2024-01-26T00:11:47.278-06:00Comments on Mesmerized by sirens: They want to play in Carcosa, i would play in Kubla KhanPhilosophical slumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09585095964577331413noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248515008776497550.post-82300445828795137642014-03-17T19:14:02.933-05:002014-03-17T19:14:02.933-05:00I agree, but I do want to point out that the name ...I agree, but I do want to point out that the name of the place is Xanadu, and that is where Kubla Khan decreed his pleasure dome. "Kubla Khan," aka Kublai Khan, was in real life a descendent of Genghis Khan, and was described in Marco Polo's writings. <br /><br />Coleridge borrowed him for the poem, which came to him in a laudanum dream. Someone woke him up thus robbing him of the second part of the poem, which was just where it was getting interesting and a bit scary.<br /><br />Citizen Kane called his estate "Xanadu." So was the roller rink in the Olivia Newton-John movie and song "Xanadu."<br /><br />See, I'm already getting ideas: I would have Kubla Khan be a reclusive but wealthy king retreated from the world, but people would still be invited to the pleasure dome. Every so often someone would disappear into the far more sinister underground depths. He would be trying to win back his spirit lover, his Muse, played by Olivia Newton-John. (No really, she was a muse in the movie.) Are these things connected? are there other forces at work behind the walls of Xanadu? Morlocks or something similar?<br /><br />Ooooh!paulierocketshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12535241156724870026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7248515008776497550.post-15200027918568272932012-01-16T07:28:41.276-06:002012-01-16T07:28:41.276-06:00"War" before "pleasure", pleas..."War" before "pleasure", please <i>*points above*</i> :) (Probably a bit like Carcosa, I'd guess, not that I've read that).<br /><br />Xanadu beats Boosboodle hands down for atmosphere, anyhow. ;)<br /><br />verification: chingst (no comment...)irbyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10193584357850337816noreply@blogger.com