Ixion
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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 says he once was king of Thessaly: he had to punish crime.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
His works are these: "Vivian Grey," 1817; "The Infernal Marriage;" "Ixion in Heaven," and "Popanilla," 1828; "Contarini Fleming," and "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy," 1832; "The Young Duke," about that time; "What is he?"
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
Of course both Caliban and Ixion talk Browningese.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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