Xanadu

Other times Xanadu came up

1. Then later on, he had spent a long time building an ophthalm palace for his house and that burned down. I think the day after completion. He built a kind of sort of like a Xanadu type place, like a gigantic mansion, and it burned down almost immediately. Then weirdly, this is all in Connecticut where he sort of retired after his long career. I think Bridgeport, Connecticut, he, I think, became mayor of the town.

   26: No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact, 2014-09-13 · listen ⏱ 00:28:16

2. The reason that didn't go there is because of the death worms they have in Mongolia, isn't it? They're killed by lightning bolts from the anus. No, thank you. This Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sort of immortalized Xanadu in that great poem of his. This is such a basic thing that I didn't know. I'm saying it for the other people out there who did not know this, even though 90% of you will.

   328: No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop, 2020-07-03 · listen ⏱ 00:40:24

3. You just say, it's not that common. It's a way to make all of our listeners feel very stupid. I was in the category, but then that's even more insulting, I guess. So he wrote it in this opium haze. He was inspired after reading about the description of Xanadu in Marco Polo's accounts. It never got... I haven't actually read it myself. Does it just cut off or...

   328: No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop, 2020-07-03 · listen ⏱ 00:41:24

4. It was a nightmare. This was in, it was Kublai Khan, who was the grandson of Genghis and extended his empire. We're talking the second half of the 13th century. He had a summer capital in Shangdu, or made famous as Xanadu, of course by Kolarich in his poem. It was called Shangdu. In his summer capital, he had this big palace. It was apparently, you know, really ornate, amazing palace, huge. and it was based on the Mongolian kind of yurt or gur design.

   No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop, 2020-07-03 · listen ⏱ 00:26:25