Re: (TV) Pleasure Dome

["J.Germaine" <jpg55@home.com>]

Thanks for the insight.
To add some  T.S. Eliot poetic allusion I have to say that George W. is a
"hollow man."  He is a very sad person for America.

> From: secretX@webtv.net
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> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 04:56:23 -0800 (PST)
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> Subject: (TV) Pleasure Dome
> 
> 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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