Hesperides immortal as long as he touched his mother, Gaia, the earth. Heracles killed Antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him in a bearhug. Herodotus claims that Heracles stopped in Egypt, where King Busiris decided to make him the yearly sacrifice, but Heracles burst out of his chains. Finally making his way to the Garden of the Hesperides, Heracles tricked Atlas into retrieving some of the golden apples for him, by offering to hold up the heavens for a little while (Atlas was able to take them as, in this version, he was the father or otherwise related to the
Near to the Wild Heart of Life whose title is itself a reference to the 1916 novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. In an interview with National Public Radio (NPR), King explained the title: On October 31, 2016, Japandroids announced their third album "Near to the Wild Heart of Life" via a teaser video featuring live footage from their 4-night stand at The Cobalt in Vancouver. On November 2, 2016, it was confirmed that the album would be released by Anti- on January 27, 2017, and preceded by a limited edition 7" of the album's title track. When asked about