Brevity by Dan Thompson for November 12, 2023

That place wasn’t up to code.

“Xanadu” is actually a 1980 Olivia Newton-John song and movie.

And all should cry “Beware! Beware!”

The horses don’t look too happy about it, either.

That’s because he hoards all the gold for himself.

Mongols into a bar…

The bartender asks if he has a home. He says no,mad.

That horse on the left looks like he’s rolling his eye in disgust at the pun.

Yeah, that sounds right.

Done on time and under budget without brownies in the inspectors pocket.

Nice details in this one. Clothing and Tree, Horses and Himalayas. :)

So, what Yuan a do now?

Strike Back!

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.

-- “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.