Sunday, February 3, 2013

Question 1462:Atithi Devo Bhava

A fairly simple one..
X was living at Nether Stowey (a village in the foothills of the Quantocks). It is unclear where the event  actually took place..

On awakening he(X) appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out on business by Y, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas! without the after restoration of the latter!
What?

Answer: Kubla Khan and the Person from Porlock

6 Answers:

Vinay Handa said...

X-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The 'Person from Porlock' was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan.

indian said...

X-samuel taylor coleridge.
Y-William wordsworth.

Soumya said...

Kubla Khan. Person from Porlock

tejanpandya said...

Kubla Khan?

tejanpandya said...

Kubla Khan?

abhimanyu said...

porlock..