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Kubla Khan - Coleridge
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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"In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."
More interesting dreams, other people's dreams. In this case, Kubla Khan, a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - or, more accurately, a fragment of a poem, having emerged from an opium induced slumber he was filled with inspiration and upon writing down the poem found himself interrupted by a persistent traveling salesperson; the dream was lost and he only ever recaptured fragments.
Link: Wiki on Kubla Khan
Link: online-literature - complete poem
Note the ending: "For he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of paradise..."
My Own Biographer
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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IFN and I'm taking the boy to see "True Grit" by the Coen Brothers. And on the way I check to see how his memorization of quotes and poetry is doing. He's learning them, but knows nothing about the authors. I've reassigned these for next week.
And perhaps this is what inspired him, because he takes out his pen and paper and begins writing down my quotes. By which I mean all the offensive 4 letter words and explicitives I toss off in ordinary conversation. He jots them down faithfully and reads them back to me, I correct them for accuracy and try to append explanatory footnotes to some of them - he won't have it. "For my teachers and social worker" he tells me.
The Devil's Trill
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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As my dreams have been a bit of a bust lately (today, after my nap, a classic waiter's nightmare: At the restaurant, tables keep coming in and I can't keep up, there are different rooms and every time I discover a different room I discover even more tables I have to get to and visit....and when I'm visiting them, I fall asleep....) I've thought to enclose somebody elses.
Tartini's "The Devil's Trill"
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Bosses Nephew (2)
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
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"You Lazy" he says, then corrects himself: "You're lazy!".
He's annoyed because the new manager has called him lazy and told on him to his pa. Now the new manager isn't one exactly to be throwing stones, and really, it's such a small arena and we're all in it together and small trifles like this annoy him, annoy everyone.
It's true he's lazy, but he also puts in the overtime and shows up on his days off to make sure things are running smoothly. And he's the boss's nephew and so he's not going anywhere and like so many things in the restaurant, you just have to work around it.
So now he's trying to wind me up: "You Lazy" he says to me, hoping for some reaction. I just laugh. And he starts in on how he hates working with all the girls, girls have no place in this restaurant, it's fine dining, they're all lazy, they have no class, and I get to listen.
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