Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Ixion

Ixion was a figure in Greek Mythology
Zeus ordered Hermes to bind Ixion to a burning  wheel that was always spinning across the heavens; only when Orpheus played his lyre did it stop for a while.

Canon B.H. Davies, a vicar, adopted the name for a column in The Motor Cycle he wrote for 40 years until the 1960s.

I'm no Ixion, but I pluck at his coat tails.

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