[Ravensfort] Cinco de Mayo

Tue May 5 15:24:47 PDT 2009

reading that reminds me of the frankie goes to hollywood song 'welcome to the pleasuredome'

devin (who may be ready to play again)

--- On Tue, 5/5/09, byzytym <byzytym at att.net> wrote:

From: byzytym <byzytym at att.net>
Subject: Re: [Ravensfort] Cinco de Mayo
To: "Shanahan" <ms_shanahan at yahoo.com>, "A Kindness Of Ravens" <ravensfort at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 5:21 PM

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When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem 
"Kubla Khan / A Vision in a Dream : A Fragment" 
he claimed that it came from an opium induced dream 
that had been interrupted before he came to the conclusion.  
Reading the passages below, it is not hard to believe him.
My guess is that he was probably into beer as well 
and not much on mare's milk, but ya never know.

Pax,
MARIVS

"what shall it profit a man,
if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul ?"

Kubla Khan written 1797

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.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Shanahan 
To: A Kindness Of Ravens 
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Ravensfort] Cinco de Mayo

Fermented mare's milk.... not beer.

Shanahan

From: James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com>
To: byzytym <byzytym at att.net>
Cc: A Kindness Of Ravens <ravensfort at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 8:21:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Ravensfort] Cinco de Mayo

Happy Kublai Khan Day!

Kublai (grandson of Genghis) elected Khan on 5 May 1260

Not sure what kind of beer to drink for that.  Charles?

j

byzytym wrote:
> Cinco de Mayo salutations, y'all.
> This celebration has always seemed a little strange to me.
> It is a celebration of Mexico's victory over the French at the battle of Puebla on the 5th of May 1862.
> The dirty little secret about this is the fact that on May 17th 1863 the French retook the city.
> The French had invaded Mexico because it was not making payments on debts to its European lenders.
> Not wanting to be cheated on good faith loans France did not discourage easily.
> They went on to capture the Capital and on May 28th 1864 Maximilian was formally crowned Emperor of Mexico.
> So May turned out to be a pretty good month for the French after all.
> Unfortunately for France, the American Civil War came to an end the next year.
> Had it not been for the U.S. freebees to the Mexican rebels most people in south Texas would now hear les sons du francais.
> Being from Louisiana, I would not mind that at all.
> Perhaps Mexico should pick another month and day to celebrate since the May 5th victory was so short lived.
> As for me, today I will adorn myself with the fleur de lis and seek a sassy French beer.
>  I include wikipedia sites not so much for the accuracy of their facts, but rather for the cool art work they usually use.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_intervention_in_Mexico
>  Paix,
> MARIVS
>  "what shall it profit a man,
> if he shall gain the whole world,
> and lose his own soul ?"
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