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Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (Covered with Molasses)
Season 1 Episode 42
- Mr. Samuel Coleridge reads his poem? vision? dream? Kubla Khan, and vividly relates the physical terrors and psychological horrors of his all-consuming drug abuse.
- Did Coleridge ever kick his drug habit?
- By the way, Mr. Bartley makes a WHOOPER of a pronunciation mistake (more than usual) and did not edit it out. Can you find it?
- Answer in next episode - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- :00 Introduction
- 1:04 Ghost of Mr. Poe enters
- 2:30 The Haunted Palace
- 5:29 Ghost of Mr. Coleridge enters
- 6:19 Kubla Khan
- 15:18 Was Coleridge tripping?
- 18:40 First use of laudanum/opium
- 20:15 Dependency develops
- 23:48 Complications
- 25:40 Treatment of self and family
- 28:34 Restlessness and The Pain of Sleep
- 33:33 Final Years
- 35:38 Sources and Outro
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