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It now became apparent (despite the lack of library paste)
that something had happened to the vicar;
guns began to go off in the distance.

At twilight, however, no message had come from the asylum,
so the others retired to the kiosk,
only to discover the cakes iced a peculiar shade of green
and the tea-urn empty
save for a card on which was written the single word:
Farewell. *

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Waking Aida – That’s Not My Trick, Michael   -00:00-
You Slut! – Magnifiererer   -05:50-
Rumour Cubes – Triptych   -09:38-
Alpha Male Tea Party – Depressingly Shit Lunchtime Sandwich   -16:13-
Vasudeva – Back To The Feeding Ground   -21:23-
We Arrive Alive – Walls   -25:16-
North End – G-13   -29:54-
The Silence Of A Whisper – Happy And Sad Times   -34:20-
Eno – Ser Roen   -40:05-
Whale Fall – Swagger   -47:30-
Sky Flying By – The Longer the Fall   -54:16-
3epkano – Distant Outings   -59:32-
Arsiesys – Why Do you Leave Me So Soon?   -64:07-
Sleepmakeswaves – A Gaze Blank And Pitiless As The Sun   -71:28-

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* Edward Gorey ‘The Object-Lesson’ ©1958 Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
The echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.

‘O Timballo! How happy we are,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar,
And all night long in the moonlight pale,
we sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!’

(The Jumblies, ©1968 by Edward Lear, Young Scott Books New York)

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If These Trees Could Talk – Barren Lands Of A Modern Dinosaur   -00:00-
Meniscus – Cusp   -05:59-
Flares – 299 792 458 m/s   -13:12-
The Shaking Sensations – Home Is Where The Heart Is   -20:21-
Concord To Seas – Merrimack   -29:19-
Glories – Mechanical Mariner   -33:20-
Administration Shock Him – I   -41:45-
Milhaven – Animal 3k   -48:28-
Icaro – Samanco   -53:41-
Nice Wings, Icarus! – Birth   -59:35-
Rocket Miner – Lotus   -68:56-

640.054 playlist.pdf

At the corner of Lodovico Street, she looked back. The house had not capitulated to the forces unleashed within. It stood now as quiet as a grave. No, quieter.

As she turned away, somebody collided with her. She yelped with surprise, but the huddled pedestrian was already hurrying away into the anxious murk that preceded morning. As the figure hovered on the outskirts of solidity, it glanced back, and its head flared in the gloom, a cone of white fire. It was the Engineer. She had no time to look away; it was gone again in one instant, leaving its glamour in her eye.

Only then did she realize the purpose of the collision. Lemarchand’s box had been passed back to her, and sat in her hand. Its surfaces had been immaculately resealed and polished to a high gloss. Though she did not examine it, she was certain there would be no clue to its solution left. The next discoverer would voyage its faces without a chart. And until such time, was she elected its keeper? Apparently so.

(The Hellbound Heart, Copyright © 1986 by Clive Barker)

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Bleaklow – Margravine / The Vagrant   -00:00-
Rest – Operation: Impending Doom   -10:14-
Naisian – Take Me To The Mountain Dew Mountain   -16:50-
Cosmonauts Day – Rift   -24:20-
Annapurna – Lester   -28:11-
Russian Circles – Mladek   -35:54-
On Wings Of Wax – The Approach   -43:34-
UpCDownC – Wolves In The Walls   -46:22-
Khuda – Marchmen   -53:17-
Refraction – Until We Reach   -57:37-
Colaris – Reconsidering   -65:12-
Damascus – Khalida   -70:42-
Oak – Last Day Of…   -76:18-

640.052 playlist

The 50th 6forty project collection! Please support the bands by buying their records and going to their shows. Click on each link for more info.

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Sioum – Collapse   -00:00-
Alpha Male Tea Party – Bakers Dozen   -03:36-
And So I Watch You From Afar – Search:Party:Animal   -07:30-
Jessamine – Ordinary Sleep   -12:48-
Cloudkicker – We’re Goin’ In. We’re Going Down.   -16:27-
You Slut! – MyBloodyJesusExplorerOnFire   -21:43-
Rumour Cubes – The Gove Curve   -25:51-
Bridges of Königsberg – Formations   -31:36-
Kalouv – Agripa   -37:36-
The Day We Left Earth – Shape & Sound   -43:48-
Versa – Uncommon Things II   -52:49-
Panzer Queen – Flight From The White Shores   -58:06-

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“Poor man,” Candy said, echoing Norma’s earlier sentiments. “Did he leave a note? I mean, a suicide note?”

“Yes. Of a kind. As far as I can gather he said something about waiting for his ship to come in.”

“What did he mean by that?” Candy said, jotting the phrase down.

“Well, he was probably drunk, and a little crazy. But he had something in the back of his head about ships and the sea.”

“That’s strange,” Candy said.

“It gets stranger,” Norma said.

She went to the small table beside the bed and opened the drawer. In it was a copy of Gideon’s Bible and a strange object made of what looked like brass. She took it out.

“According to the stories,” she said, “this is the only object of any worth he had with him.”

“What is it?”

Norma handed it to Candy. It was heavy and etched with numbers. There was a moving part that was designed to line up with the numbers.

“It’s a sextant,” Norma said.

Candy looked blank. “What’s a sextant?”

“It’s something sailors use to find out where they are when they’re out at sea. I don’t exactly know how it works, but you line it up with the stars somehow and…” She shrugged. “You find out where you are.”

“And he had this with him?”

“As I say: according to the stories. This very one.”

“Wouldn’t the police have taken it?” Candy said.

“You would think so. But as long as I’ve been working in the hotel that thing has been here in that drawer, beside the Gideon’s Bible. Henry Murkitt’s sextant.”

(Clive Barker, Abarat, ©2002, HarperCollins)

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Listing Ships – The 100 Gun Ship   -00:00-
Wiltz – Ba Ba Ching   -04:24-
3epkano – Cesare’s Theme   -09:22-
Dorena – To Floor Thirteen, Part 2   -12:35-
Broken Cities – Book Of The Living   -19:13-
In Violet – Headlights   -26:44-
Hood – How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly Through?   -31:55-
Red Room Cinema – Close Your Eyes And Count To Ten   -37:36-
New Century Classics – Children Of An Uncertain Future   -42:20-
Sey Hollo – Thank You Very Much   -48:21-
Beyond This Point Are Monsters – Blues Shoes   -55:06-

640.048 playlist.pdf