Thank
you, thank you, thank you Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton John,
especially Jeff Lynne who wrote the song Xanadu. I don’t know what I would have done without
you. This truly is a case of me drawing
an idea from my past because I didn’t have a clue what to do for the letter X
and then this song popped into my mind.
Xanadu is actually a real place in Mongolia. The emperor had two summer palaces there during the Kublai Khan Dynasty. I would’ve never known that one. Samuel Taylor Coleridge also wrote a poem about Xanadu. Who’d a thunk? (I know thunk isn’t a word but it’s the best I can come up with to describe my amazement there is more to Xanadu than I thought.
Rule #22 Sometimes it pays to draw ideas from your past.
Xanadu is actually a real place in Mongolia. The emperor had two summer palaces there during the Kublai Khan Dynasty. I would’ve never known that one. Samuel Taylor Coleridge also wrote a poem about Xanadu. Who’d a thunk? (I know thunk isn’t a word but it’s the best I can come up with to describe my amazement there is more to Xanadu than I thought.
Rule #22 Sometimes it pays to draw ideas from your past.
4 comments:
TWO summer palaces? That's sheer greed!
Well, it's good to know that song was good for something. :)
I love Coleridge's poem--still remember memorizing it in the 8th grade, lo these many years ago.
I always draw ideas from my past. Good word, good post.
Great picture, by the way, Beautiful!
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