Al Brydon, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Presently he came down from his post on the mountain top, and as he strode swiftly onwards the high hills and the forest quaked beneath the tread of his immortal feet. Three strides he took, and with the fourth he reached his goal- Aegae, where is his glittering golden palace, imperishable, in the depths of the sea.

So lightly did the horses fly that the bronze axle of the car was not even wet beneath it; and thus his bounding steeds took him to the ships of the Achaeans.

H.

Chill-out selection: Charles Murdoch – “Straws”, Kenton Slash Demon – “Skydancer” (Taragana Pyjarama Remix), Taragana Pyjarama – “Together” (Kenton Slash Demon Remix) and Dntel – “Peepsie” [Hyetal RMX].

The Iliad-myth must therefore have been current many ages before the Greeks inhabited Greece, long before there was any Ilion to be conquered.
Nevertheless, this does not forbid the supposition that the legend, as we have it, may have been formed by the crystallization of mythical conceptions about a nucleus of genuine tradition.

In this view I am upheld by a most sagacious and accurate scholar, Mr. E. A. Freeman, who finds in Carlovingian romance an excellent illustration of the problem before us.

J.F.

Jürgen Heckel, Munich, Germany.

That vomiting is of most service which consists of phlegm and bile mixed together, and neither very thick nor in great quantity; but those vomitings which are more unmixed are worse.
But if that which is vomited be of the color of leeks or livid, or black, whatever of these colors it be, it is to be reckoned bad; but if the same man vomit all these colors, it is to be reckoned a very fatal symptom.

But of all the vomitings, the livid indicates the danger of death, provided it be of a fetid smell. But all the smells which are somewhat putrid and fetid, are bad in all vomitings.

H.

Illustrations 1-2 by Antoine Collignon. The rest in order: zola85, Tamir Bayarsaikhan and Otgo.suk, Pete Harrison and Evade, Johan Calmon; all from a Desktopography project.

(Those who) possessed in highest degree the attributes (of the Tao) did not (seek) to show them, and therefore they possessed them (in fullest measure).

(Those who) possessed in a lower degree those attributes (sought how) not to lose them, and therefore they did not possess them (in fullest measure).

L.T.

Kyson – Ceremonies – 2015
Sherwood & Pinch – Stand Strong – 2015
How To Dress Well – Lover’s Start – 2010
Dan Lissvik – Airwalk – 2015
Beach House – Space Song – 2015
Feist – Anti-Pioneer – 2011
Phosphorescent – Muchacho’s Tune – 2013
Jon Hopkins – Form by Firelight – 2013
Tame Impala – Reality In Motion – 2015
Taylor McFerrin – Decisions ft. Emily King – 2014
Beck – Defriended – 2013
Zero 7 – Last Light ft. José González – 2015
CocoRosie – K-Hole – 2011

Ying Jun Cheng, Brooklyn, NY.

They say to me: ‘What strange man are you, to wish us eternal sadness? Would you have us grieve while we starve? Do you not know that work is impossible with a heavy heart and cannot you see that we have lightened our hearts in order to take up the burden our dead brothers have left to us? What strange man are you?’

G.W.C.