Ixion
Americannoun
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They called the concept of a rocket stage-turned-habitat Ixion, after the grandfather of the Centaurs.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018
Its implicit suggestion was that your selfish brats were doomed to repeat your biography, that humanity could never get off the burning wheel of Ixion.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2017
Ixion, the sinner, suffering eternal torment, questions the justice of such torment.
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
Ixion, then, in direct contrast to Prometheus, stands forth an embodiment of the most detestable of sins, perpetrated simply for personal ends.
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
But in the moment of pure objective contemplation, free from all interest of the particular subjectivity, we enter a painless state: the wheel of Ixion stands still.
From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas
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