Xanadu and Book.

[Draconis]

Have you ever heard of xanadu - which was concieved by a guy named nelson? Well i just happen to have a copy of the book!

Just thought you might think it was interesting.

The book looks like this without the signature:

Site (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/computer-lib/)
Front cover (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/computer-lib/cl-cover.jpg)Back cover(upside down) (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/computer-lib/dm-cover.jpg)

And guess what? It's worth 150$!

Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0893470023/002-7375877-8157613?v=glance)

[MANDRAG GANON]

I had heard of xanadu, I never really what it was...just the word...I've also heard the song Xanadu by Rush wich prolly has something to do with what ever it is....The book looks cool...I doesn't even look like a book....loks like someones old draw they crumpled up.....

[cyberkiller6276]

Looks interestin, but I'm not about to buy a book for $150.

Speaking of the song though, It has to be on my top ten favorite songs.

[Starkist]

"In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree..."

Kudos if you kids know the reference. :)

[carrot red]

I know the song too.


In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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 !

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.

Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !

And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Starkist]

:heart:

:D

[MANDRAG GANON]

The freak? What version of the song is that O.o thats like....a longer version of the rush song....