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#63652 04/04/02 06:26 PM
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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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But I Khan not.


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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!


"Get your tickets here!!!!! Programs -- popcorn -- peanuts -- sooveneers -- ice cold beer!!!!"


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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!

Hev

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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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Hubby and I were looking at some real estate ads and this one jumped out at us:

Step saver ranch


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