X is for . . .

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Xanadu. Not the Olivia Newton John film. I mean the Coleridge poem itself:

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. 

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This poem came to Coleridge in a dream while under the influence of opiates and reading a description of Kublai Khan's summer palace, the afore-mentioned Xanadu. Have your dreams gone into your writing?

And now for "Name That Famous Brand": (Do I even need a picture? Is there more than one famous brand that starts with 'x'?)

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Yesterday's famous brand: Wilson tennis balls

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