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I thought the word xanadu was in the title but many google searches have led to nought … I probably got the book through the school library in Avon Lake, Ohio.
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There is a sustained exploration of couplets, from the zany comic adventure of “xanadu”:
YOUR WILDERNESS & MINE by DAVID HIGHSMITH EILEEN 2009
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There is a sustained exploration of couplets, from the zany comic adventure of “xanadu”:
Archive 2009-12-01 EILEEN 2009
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CLIPE FILME XANADU where can i listen to xanadu original broadway cast recording
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White roller skates with shiny red wheels magically appeared. and to the park, I was driven, with a gleaming new purple helmet and extra cushiony knee pads, and off I went. and down I fell. and up I went again. and down I fell, again and always they just picked me back up and sent me on my way. and ice cream cones were the staple of my childhood xanadu with my grandparents.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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If I could just have a vacation from my own self defeating thoughts, that would be a true eden of paradise. a xanadu of my waking world~
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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On the gates at the entrance to the main drive they engraved the wordsAt xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.
When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964
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FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream ( "xanadu. txt");
PlanetJava 2010
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Frito-Lay needs to find out whether the new bag will be accepted by we saw xanadu on broadway acouple of years ago it is was sooo fun! loved it!!!
PegasusNews.com stories Teresa Gubbins 2010
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Frito-Lay needs to find out whether the new bag will be accepted by we saw xanadu on broadway acouple of years ago it is was sooo fun! loved it!!!
oroboros commented on the word xanadu
See: Poetrie: Kubla Khan
December 7, 2006
john commented on the word xanadu
Just saw this movie the other week, for the first time since I was 10, when I saw it in the theater. It basically sucks, but not nearly as badly as I thought it would. And Gene Kelly, he still had it, in spades -- it's worth watching, just to see him dance a bit.
December 7, 2006
lbeaumont commented on the word xanadu
I see xanadu appearing in color lists, but none of the definitions describe a color. Apparently it is a greenish-grey color named after the leaves of the Xanadu cultivar of Philodendron. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(colour)
October 15, 2010
bilby commented on the word xanadu
It's not based on the colour of Olivia Newton-John's leotard? *worried*
October 15, 2010
thtownse commented on the word xanadu
No dude, it's based on an awesome Rush song.
October 15, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word xanadu
Is Rush the band that did that song about the flying saucer?
October 15, 2010
thtownse commented on the word xanadu
No, that was Styx (Come Sail Away, right?). Rush's Xanadu is just yet another rock ditty that draws on classic literature to create a morality play analyzing the balance we must all strive between our reckless desires and the inevitable, disastrous yet unforeseeable consequences of going too far in our quest for immortality. Really now I think about it, not too different from O N-J's "Xanadu"?
October 16, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word xanadu
Sorry, thtownse. That's a little trick I sometimes like to play on Rush fans. It only works because they are always strangely respectful and earnest--it usually takes a full minute before they tell me I'm full of crap. I'll nod along with them as they work through the process, because, you know, there might be that one song (uh-huh) on "Fly By Night" (yeah) that might have something.... (This is usually when I stop nodding my head and just start singing "Come sail away with meeeeeeee, lads.")
I'm usually a very nice person, but wow--some of the disgusted looks I get are just priceless.
Edit: Especially from guitar players.
October 16, 2010
yarb commented on the word xanadu
Rush, Canada's finest! It doesn't get much better than "The Trees"!
October 16, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word xanadu
(See what I mean?)
October 16, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word xanadu
Hey yarb--I hear another band is forming. Would you like to join? This time I think thtownse is going to play the role of the svengali.
October 16, 2010
yarb commented on the word xanadu
If there's a svengali already in place, then count me in!
You can't achieve anything in music - or for that matter in life - if you don't have a svengali.
October 16, 2010
thtownse commented on the word xanadu
You will join my band. You will play the doubleneck guitar and you will enjoy the plethora of Rush songs - RUSH SONGS R U S H S O N G S!
I'm thinking a Rush cover band, called "Hurry" or something. You in?
October 20, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word xanadu
thtownse: Yes!
everyone else: Come sail away with me, lads!
April 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word xanadu
I have 'no regrets'
April 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word xanadu
and 'these days'
April 11, 2012
vendingmachine commented on the word xanadu
The gray-green color of the philodendron leaf.
June 22, 2015