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> Marco Polo’s awestruck description of the palace of Kublai Kahn at Xanadu belongs to the same genre. Uh, what? Do they mean Kubla Kahn, a poem about a fictio
by Kluny 9y ago
> Marco Polo’s awestruck description of the palace of Kublai Kahn at Xanadu belongs to the same genre.
Uh, what? Do they mean Kubla Kahn, a poem about a fictional world by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which came to him in an opium dream? When did Marco Polo come into it?
- anamexis 9y agoKublai Khan, an emperor of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kublai_Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kublai_Khan