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    Where is the river Alph?

    Question #68983. Asked by smartie806. (Jul 29 06 12:09 PM)


    joezhou300

    		The Alph is supposedly an "underground river" of Esotericism in Europe, symbolising the secret knowledge held in that Continent.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alph

    Jul 29 06, 1:00 PM
    smartie806

    		I was looking more for this, mentioned in Coleridge's Xanadu:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu

    Jul 29 06, 1:04 PM
    denmarks

    		Antarctica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alph_River

    Jul 29 06, 1:04 PM
    Gnomon

    		The Alph is in the Peloponnese in Greece. It runs within about a quarter of a mile of Olympia, site of the original Olympic Games. This is Alph the Sacred River of Coleridge's poem.

    Jul 30 06, 4:35 PM
    Baloo55th

    		I never knew Kublai Khan lived in Greece... Mind you, Coleridge had been on something quite strong, by many accounts, before he wrote what there is of that poem. What a pity that person from Porlock interrupted.

    Jul 31 06, 2:19 PM

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