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Descending toward the trees, Pitchwife began to sing. His voice was hoarse, as if he had spent too much of his life singing threnodies; yet his song was as heart-lifting as trumpets. His melody was full of wind and waves, of salt and strain, and of triumph over pain. As clearly as the new day, he sang:

“Let breakers crash against the shore–
let rocks be rimed with sea and weed,
cliffs carven by the storm–
let calm becalm the deeps,
or wind appall the waves, and sting–
and sting–
nothing overweights the poise of Sea and Stone.
The rocks and water-battery of Home endure.
We are the Giants,
born to live,
and bold for going where the dreaming goes.”

“Let world be wide beyond belief,
the ocean be as vast as time–
let journeys end or fail,
seaquests fall in ice or blast,
and wandering be forever. Roam–
and roam–
nothing tarnishes the poise of Sea and Stone.
The hearth and harbotage of Home endure.
We are the Giants,
born to sail,
and bold to go wherever dreaming goes.”

And when at last the storm broke, opening a rift of clear sky across the east, there against the horizon stood the lorn stump of Coercri’s Lighthouse.  Upraised like a stonework forearm from which the fist had been cut away, it defied weather and desuetude as if it were the last gravestone of the Unhomed. (Stephen Donaldson ‘The Wounded Land’ 1980 Del Rey Books)

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Giants – The Palace Stands In Its Proper Place   [00:00]
Heights – Trick Of The Light   [04:29]
Glorie – Looking Through The Mirror   [09:53]
Magma Waves – Fujise Shinzo   [13:51]
Willow – When The Sea Called Our Names   [22:15]
Afformance – Angel Playing With Foam On The Vaulting Keystone   [30:20]
Arbor Lights – Interstellar   [34:38]
Random Forest – See The Storm   [40:00]
Bombardier – I Am The Danger   [45:09]
Degree of Arc – The Marcher   [52:03]
Chasing Traits – Sparrow   [58:46]
I Am The Architect – Louis The King   [62:50]
Audrey Fall – Medem   [71:57]
Wander – Valor   [75:11]
Richard Parker – Tempus   [79:24]

640.080 playlist.pdf

Image by Clarkson Stanfield, R. A. (unsigned), 1855, for the private theatricals at Campden-House, Illustrated London News

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