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The Andre Brink one is a classic:

 

"(It was) like a large exotic mushroom in the fork of a tree, a little pleasure dome if ever I've seen one, where Alph the sacred river ran down to a tideless sea. No, not tideless. Her tides were convulsive, an ebb and flow that could take you very far, far back, before hurling you out, wildly and triumphantly, on a ribbed and windswept beach without end."

 

The passage is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. Unfortunately for Brink, the relevant bit is:

 

"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 the imagery in the passage is built on a misquote. Stupid man.

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Originally posted by Tannhauser

The passage is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan.

 

"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."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge? I could've sworn that was by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

:innocent:

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"(It was) like a large exotic mushroom in the fork of a tree, a little pleasure dome if ever I've seen one, where Alph the sacred river ran down to a tideless sea. No, not tideless. Her tides were convulsive, an ebb and flow that could take you very far, far back, before hurling you out, wildly and triumphantly, on a ribbed and windswept beach without end

 

So - do you shag or what?

 

:p

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"(It was) like a large exotic mushroom in the fork of a tree, a little pleasure dome if ever I've seen one, where Alph the sacred river ran down to a tideless sea. No, not tideless. Her tides were convulsive, an ebb and flow that could take you very far, far back, before hurling you out, wildly and triumphantly, on a ribbed and windswept beach without end

 

He said ribbed :eek: :p

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