Sunday, April 21, 2024
Elinor Wylie - The Eagle and the Mole (Excerpts), Kubla Khan - Xanadu (Excerpts), . . .
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan where Alph the sacred river ran, in caverns measureless to man with roots of sweet and mana dew, live like the velvet mole, burrow underground with roots of trees and stones with rivers at their source and disembodied bones.
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The narrowing of life in the third act shrinks the outer flesh of supposed reality while emboldening the bones of honesty so that all comes ...