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Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (Covered with Molasses)

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  • 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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Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (Covered with Molasses)

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