Stanmore

H.R Giger's Dune

 

The Forever War

 

Sale of the Australian embassy in Tokyo - 1988

 

Dune

 

The Battle of Hong Kong 1941

 https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/1941hkbattle/en/map.php

Mount Yari (槍ヶ岳, Yari-ga-take)

Chi-Raq

 

Photius: The Bibliotheca

https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/




The second treats of Heracles who after his spell of madness was cured with hellebore by Anticyreus who had discovered the remedy for this in Phocidus, where it was abundant; others each give a different version of this cure. He says that Nestor was loved by Heracles; that it was not Philoctetes but the Trachinian Morsimos who lit the pyre of Heracles; that Heracles, after the Nemean lion had bitten off one of his fingers had only nine and that there exists a tomb erected for this detached finger; other authors say that he lost his finger following a blow by a dart of a stingray and one can see at Sparta a stone lion erected on the tomb of the finger and which is the symbol of the power of the hero. It is since then that stone lions have likewise been erected on the tombs of other important people; other authors give different explications of the lion statues. From the pyre of Heracles a swarm of locusts flew out which ravaged the countryside like a plague before they were destroyed.



Codex 190, 147a39-147b6

The craft of Kissa by Kissa

Mount Aso (阿蘇山, Aso-san)

https://peakvisor.com/3d-map/peak/aso-san.html

Birthplace of Rodan

Located in Japan's Kumamoto prefecture, Aso-san (or Mount Aso) is the largest active volcano in Japan at 5,223 feet (1,592 m) above sea level (the second largest in the world behind Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii).

Midnight Mass

 

Gene Wolfe, “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories” (1970)

Winter comes to water as well as land, though there are no leaves to fall. The waves that were a bright, hard blue yesterday under a fading sky today are green, opaque, and cold. If you are a boy not wanted in the house you walk the beach for hours, feeling the winter that has come in the night; sand blowing across your shoes, spray wetting the legs of your corduroys.

Swiss ammo straps

 

80

 

Pyramids of Giza Walking Tour

The Brisbane line: An episode in capital history

Grand Cathay

 

Aristotle, On the art of poetry; translated by Ingram Bywater

Lego Titanic

 

Freedom!

 

Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

 https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/milman-parry-collection-of-oral-literature

Borg Defence

 

Far Cry 6

 

Spring Night, Delighting in Rain

春夜喜雨 chūn yè xǐ yǔ



好雨知時節 Hǎo yǔ zhī shí jié,

當春乃發生 Dāng chūn nǎi fā shēng.

隨風潛入夜 Suí fēng qián rù yè,

潤物細無聲 Rùn wù xì wú shēng.

野徑雲俱黑 Yě jìng yún jù hēi,

江船火獨明 Jiāng chuán huǒ dú míng.

曉看紅濕處 Xiǎo kàn hóng shī chù,

花重錦官城 Huā zhòng jǐn guān chéng.







Spring Night, Delighting in Rain - Du Fu



The good rain knows when to fall,

stirring new growth the moment spring arrives.

Wind-borne, it steals softly into the night,

nourishing, enriching, delicate, and soundless.

Country paths black as the clouds above them;

on a river boat a lone torch flares.

Come dawn we'll see a landscape moist and pink,

blossoms heavy over the City of Brocade.




Watson, Burton The Selected Poems of Du Fu (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)