In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a Stately Pleasure Dome Decree...

[gp_sarahconnor]

I used to love that poem.  To me it meant that somewhere, even in these harsh times, there was a place, a hidden place, that people could go to, and be at peace for the rest of their lives

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[notthemedic]

Coleridge.

I don't think that there's really much need for sunscreen here.

[gp_sarahconnor]

Not yet.

[notthemedic]

I suppose if there's anything I've learnt these last few years has been that anything is possible. And in some cases probable.

[locked_heart_16]

"...Where Alph, the sacred river ran
through caverns measureless to man,
down to a sunless sea."

Coleridge.

Sarah, are you worried about something?

[gp_john_connor]

Sadly she is right about it. At least about parts.

[locked_heart_16]

Well, Lee Adama thinks she's right about sunblock with a rating of one-million...

The other issue, though...maybe it isn't just about social etiquette.

[gp_sarahconnor]

Worried... that would be an understatemment.

Here's a good part.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !