(TV) Pleasure Dome

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Howard --  My memory is hazy but I think the original title of "Dream's
Dream" was "Pleasure Dome". When I met Tom I was writing a school report
called "Dreams and Literature" and he asked me to send him a copy.
Here's an excerpt:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the English Romantic poet, often took his
inspiration from dreams. In writing about his poem "Kubla Khan"
Coleridge noted that he was ill and had fallen asleep from the effects
of a drug prescribed for his malady. It was in this profound three-hour
sleep that he saw the visions of Xanadu. which he recorded immediately
upon waking: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleaure dome decree..."

(There was a lot of floating going on in Xanadu. Lewis Carroll and his
mirrors were in my notes too)

I always thought the song "Cooleridge" from "The Wonder" was inspired by
a U.S.President  but maybe Tom was thinking about Coleridge's Xanadu
again. Was there a President Coleridge? I guess I know more about
Romantic poets than I know about U.S. presidents, although I do know
that George W. Bush thinks global warming is a fiction invented by
radical environmentalists.

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde were also born in a dream

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