Sri Chinmoy, Balzac, Keats, Coleridge and readership.

Yesterday I posted the introduction to "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. What an interesting text that is.

The problem was that I mistakenly reported it was written by Keats. The fact that nobody told me -- how respectful the very numerous readership of this blog is -- did not stop me from waking up late at night with cold sweats, screaming "Oh no, not Keats!"

Anyway, I am grateful I did that mistake, because:

1. It made me investigate how to do strikeout characters with RestructuredText. Now not only I know how to do strikeouts, but also underlines, and basically any kind of typographical extravaganza with RestructuredText;
2. It is a very good excuse to write a new entry for my blog;
3. It gives me the opportunity to tell you why I did that mistake.

So, yesterday I was reading Sri Chinmoy's comments on Balzac. Balzac was a genius, working sleeplessly, sometimes sleeping less than 2 hours a day. Very inspiring.

I browsed a little more the Library, and stumbled on Milton then Keats and finally Coleridge.

The fact is that, for some reason, the opening line A thing of beauty is a joy for ever of Keats' Endymion got stuck in my mind.

When I turned to Kubla Khan I was so impressed by its introduction that I decided to reproduce it on my post, but alas, Keats was still on my mind.

And from there, as they say, the rest is history.