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Like Coleridge I'm trying to remember where this phrase came from...a dream?...from a book?...on this board? To wit... Almost everything in nature is either concave or convex, apply Freud at will if you must appease your wanton lust.(uh I might have embellished it a bit)Kubla Kahn- a 54 line poem of sexual allusions to certain aspects of the female anatomy ? Come on, Coleridge was good, but not that good.
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but not that good. unlike us [we are Kahn-do guys here ]
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Just out of interest, what did you think it was about before I opened my big mouth? Question directed to all and sundry.
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OK, Doc Comfort, it is time for you to reach a new day. The poem, bless your heart, is a mystical dream of the 19th century mind towards a land of the exotic, a romantic desire to escape the confines of a overly constructed puritan culture, but Coleridge, even subliminally, would never have stooped to the thoughts that you feel free to assign. Re-read The Ancient Mariner, A project begun by the more-or-less straight-laced Wordsworth, then finished by Coleridge. Could this moralist be the lewdist you imagine? I, Milum, challenge you, young Mr. Comfort, to a line-by -line duel. The only thing you have to lose in a contest like this is your virginity.
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I, Milum, challenge you, young Mr. Comfort, to a line-by -line duel.
Oh goody! A fight!
prophesying war! Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! And close your eyes with holy dread!
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Dear Milum: I'm glad you are challenging doc_comfort, and not me. I re-read the Ancient Mariner a couple months ago, and the only sex I can remember was the wedding to which the guests were going. Incidentally, I did not know until recently that good old wordsworth abandoned a daughter born without benefit of clergy.. Not sure of details, but it made him a bastard in my book. I like his poetry just the same.
"without benefit of clergy" a euphemism of sorts, but hardly a compliment
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Hey Dr Bill, here's some scientific euphemisms I found: 10. It is well known: " A few others share my wild idea." 9. As you well know: "No one knows." 8. As you remember: "No one remembers." 7. As you can see: "This slide is so confused I can't explain it myself." 6. The average value: " A composite of the experiments that worked." 5. A typical example: "The best I could find." 4. It is obvious: "I can't see it and neither can you." 3. Early experiments were inconclusive: "I completely goofed up for six months." 2. The material is slightly toxic: "All the injected animals died." 1. Additional study is needed: "I need all the grant money I can get." copied from http://www.cranlucas.com/euph.htm
A couple of friends of mine are scientists, and I'm going to re-think some of the things they've told me now!
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I LOVE that poem!! PLEASE don't tell me it's just...it's just...about sex!?!? Oh, the joy and delight will be gone forever, for me...
"just" about sex?
I dunno about anybody else, but if that ther pome really is about sex, it sounds like the most mind-blowingly excellent sex, and I wanna get me some. How sad to dis it for being about sex like that. Wooohoooooo!
Maybe it's "just" about lovemaking. Even better!
Poems - like novels and other creative works - are about what each of us reads in them. No written work is complete until it is read; by the same token, one written work on the page is almost-limitless written works in the minds of its readers.
Personally I think it's all about cricket. [kidding-e]
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