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At the center of the Sky Chamber is a reflecting pool of dreamsteel, its surface a perfect unrippled mirror. Four chairs surround it; three are occupied. The magi have little care for the ungifted custom of setting the highest-ranked to gaze upon their inferiors. When so much business is transacted in thought, physical directions begin to lose even symbolic meaning.

Patience takes the open seat, and reaches out to the other three arch-magi. It’s as easy as joining flesh-and-blood hands. Archedons and archedamas pool energies, crafting a joined sigil, an ideogram that fills the room for an instant with the thought-shape of four names:

-Patience-Providence-
-Foresight-Temperance-

The names are meaningless, traditional, having nothing to do with the personal qualities of their holders. The fused sigil proclaims the commencement of formal business. The light in the chamber dims in response; the early-evening sky is replaced by a bowl of predawn violet with a warm line of tawny gold at the horizon. Archedon Temperance, seniormost of the four, sends forth:

-We return to the matter of the black contract proposed by Luciano Anatolius of Camorr.-

<< The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch 2013 by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group >>

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-patience-
Barrows – Apparition by Moonlight   [00:00]
Oak – …and beyond   [06:52]
The Pirate Ship Quintet – Horse Manifesto   [09:55]
[interlude]  Set Fire To Flames – Love Song For 15 Ontario (W Singing Police Car)   [17:13]

-providence-
The Nightblooms – Butterfly Girl   [20:27]
Caspian – The Heart That Fed   [27:48]
Mogwai – I Am Not Batman   [34:13]
Mogwai – Tuner   [37:45]
[interlude]  Set Fire To Flames – Two Tears In A Bucket   [40:40]

-foresight-
Laura – Visitor   [44:17]
Blueneck – Sirens   [51:27]
[interlude]  Set Fire To Flames – When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts   [57:52]

-temperance-
Mono – Nostalgia   [60:51]
Doomina – Gizmo   [71:20]
Set Fire To Flames – Fading Lights Are Fading Reign Rebuilder (Tail Out)   [80:40]

640.079 playlist.pdf

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.   [Aldous Huxley]

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Exilym – Transmission n#xxx  [00:00]
The Pirate Ship Quintet – That Girl I Used To Live In  [02:39]
Leech – Hands Full Of Hearts, Heart Full of Head  [10:51]
TrucitatE – Nemesis  [22:11]
This Is Your Captain Speaking – Welcome  [29:30]
Saltland – ICA  [35:57]
Kendra Smith – Earth Same Breath  [40:03]
3epkano (Der Golem) – My Unshaped Form  [43:30]
Deadhorse – Visionaries  [48:50]
Lander Configurations – I Killed A Spider  [54:39]
Sigur Rós – Hrafntinna  [65:13]
Slowdive – Miranda  [71:35]
Blueneck – Revelations  [76:26]

640.077 playlist.pdf

The elements of the strange orb were immediately calculated, and it was at once conceded by all observers, that its path, at perihelion, would bring it into very close proximity with the earth. There were two or three astronomers, and these of secondary note, who resolutely maintained that a contact was inevitable. I cannot very well express to you the effect of this intelligence upon the people. For a few short days they would not believe an assertion which their intellect, so long employed among worldly considerations, could not in any manner grasp. But the truth of a vitally important fact soon makes its way into the understanding of even the most stolid. Finally, all men saw the astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train. For seven or eight days we saw no material increase in its apparent diameter, and but a partial alternation in its color. Meantime, the ordinary affairs of men were discarded, and all interests absorbed in a growing discussion, instituted by the philosophic, in respect to the cometary nature. Even the grossly ignorant aroused their sluggish capacities to such considerations. The learned now gave their intellect – their soul – to no such points as the allaying of fear, or to the sustenance of loved theory. They sought – they panted for right views. They groaned for perfect knowledge. Truth arose in the purity of her strength and exceeding majesty, and the wise bowed down and adored.   Edgar Allen Poe, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, ©1983 by Running Press

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Man Mountain – What Has Been Will Always Be    [00:00]
These Hands – Within / From Behind Closed Eyes    [09:52]
Red Room Cinema – The Nation Is On Fire    [16:55]
Maybeshewill – Relative Minors    [25:51]
Bear The Mammoth – In Absence Of Gravity    [32:12]
Sleeping Bear – All That You Love Will Be Carried Away    [40:48]
MinionTV – She’s A Sleeper    [46:13]
Caspian – Gone In Bloom and Bough    [49:35]
Empress – Homeward Sounds    [59:45]
Flying Saucer Attack – Feedback Song    [65:12]
Hood – Winter Politics    [70:47]
Wired To Follow – Lucy    [74:45]
Movietone – Mono Valley   [82:25]
Do Make Say Think – Greed Waltz    [87:07]

640.075 playlist.pdf

“Mr. Lightbody,” he began, dropping his eye to the notepad a moment before coming back at him with a professionally admonitory stare, “I’m in no position to make a diagnosis at this juncture. This is just the beginning. Why, we’ll need blood tests and count, urine and fecal analysis, you’ve got to go to the X-Ray Fluoroscopic Room, the Colon Department, we’ve got to have specialists examine your teeth, eyes, tonsils and tongue, we need to see how much acetone you’re exhaling and what your intestinal fluids look like. We won’t have a full picture until this evening, at the earliest.” He paused, squared his jaw, tugged at his tie. “I could make an educated guess, of course, judging from the color of your skin, the condition of your tongue, your general puniness and malaise…”

That sinking, doomed feeling came over Will again, but he fought it. Puniness? Malaise? Who was this self-serving, conceited, pompous, lantern-jawed hyena to be pronouncing judgement on him?

“Actually,” Linnimann went on, lecturing now, “we see any number of cases like yours — but I wouldn’t want to jump to conclusions. Nervous Exhaustion. Coffee neuralgia. Hyperhydrochloria. Autointoxication, certainly. But the Chief has already made that diagnosis.” He nodded his blond head sagely, smacked his lips, gently closed the notebook. “We’ll do the tests. You never know what might turn up.”  The Road to Wellville, T. Coraghessan Boyle, ©1993  Viking

Phototherapy, Thermotherapy, and Electrotherapy
This department employed both solar and electric light, with the latter used chiefly during winter. Phototherapy held a prominent place at Battle Creek, where the first electric light bath was constructed. Regarding the application of electricity, Kellogg noted that “electricity is not capable of accomplishing half the marvels that are claimed for it by many enthusiastic electrotherapists”. Nevertheless, he considered it valuable when used in conjunction with hydrotherapy, thermotherapy, and other methods. Kellogg, J.H., M.D., Superintendent (1908). The Battle Creek Sanitarium System. History, Organisation, Methods. Michigan: Battle Creek

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The Shaking Sensations – Anchors    [00:00]
Richard Parker – Second Hand    [05:09]
Celestial Wolves – Silent Noise    [10:02]
Kokomo – Kaputt Finker    [15:25]
Rest – Capacity    [23:02]
Fourteen Nights At Sea – Country Victoria    [27:55]
Nevermind The Name – The Dead Man’s Waltz    [33:44]
Our Blistered Horizon – Bitter    [39:04]
Baulta – You Burn As Bright As Paris    [44:52]
Be Water – Catharsis    [50:12]
Glories – Dwelling On    [60:16]
Signal Hill – Collide Us    [67:00]
My Cat’s A Stargazer – Breathscape    [74:37]
Roan – Goose Tree: Leather & Thread    [80:15]
Good Morning Finch – Last Rocket From Moscow To Neptune    [85:00]
Semblance – Never Without Misery, Never Without Hope    [90:54]
Degree of Arc – Can You See the Horizon?    [99:40]

640.074 playlist.pdf

At that instant either his foot slipped or the brick gave way beneath his heel. He heard himself loose a yell of alarm, which panicked the birds lining the sill. They were up and off, their wing beats ironic applause, as he flailed on the wall. His panicked gaze went first to his feet, then to the yard below.

No, not the yard; that had disappeared. It was the carpet he saw. It had been entirely unrolled, and it filled the yard from wall to wall.

What happened next occupied mere seconds, but either his mind was lightening fast, or the moments played truant, for it seemed he had all the time he needed…

Time to appreciate the startling intricacy of the design laid out beneath him: an awesome proliferation of exquisitely executed detail. Age had bled brightness from the colors of the weave, mellowing vermilion to rose, and cobalt to chalky blue, and here and there the carpet had become threadbare, but from where Cal teetered the effect was still overwhelming.

Every inch of the carpet was worked with motifs. Even the border brimmed with designs, each subtly different from its neighbor. The effect was not overbusy; every detail was clear to Cal’s feasting eyes. In one place a dozen motifs congregated as if banded together; in another, they stood apart like rival siblings. Some kept their station along the border; others spilled into the main field, as if eager to join the teeming throng there.

In the field itself, ribbons of color described arabesques across a background of sultry browns and greens, forms that were pure abstraction – bright jottings from some wild man’s diary – jostling with stylized flora and fauna. But this complexity paled beside the centerpiece of the carpet: a giant medallion, its colors as various as a summer garden, into which a hundred subtle geometries had been cunningly woven, so that the eye could reach each pattern as flower or theorem, order or turmoil, and find each choice echoed somewhere in the grand design.

Weaveworld, ©1987 by Clive Barker, Poseidon Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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Ef – 401-Lwa    [00:00]
The Evpatoria Report – Optimal Region Selector    [06:49]
The Beauty The World Makes Us Hope For – Matter piles up, knowledge is passed on, curiosity leads to many feats    [16:07]
Kafka – Spheres    [25:00]
1099 – The Grand Design    [36:03]
Locomotora – It Seems Intended More To Cause Stumbling    [48:30]
Mirrors – In Spite Of    [58:18]
A Shelter In The Desert – Frustration, Rage, Freedom    [64:37]
Withyouathome – You Are Never Alone Here    [74:45]
Fargo – Köln    [81:21]
Shy, Low – Presence    [92:40]
Leech – Endymion    [104:47]

640.072 playlist.pdf