Icarus

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(person) by Orange Julius (4.8 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Wed Apr 26 2000 at 15:03:39

In Greek mythology, the impetuous son of the inventor Daedalus. After the labyrinth be built for King Minos was 'solved' by Theseus, Daedalus was forbidden to leave the island of Crete. Being a wily inventor, he created wings from feathers and wax for he and his son to escape. Although Icarus was warned not to fly too close to the sun, he became bold and careless while flying, and the wings fell apart, sending him crashing to his death in the sea below.

(thing) by agoodmixture (2.2 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Sat Jan 20 2001 at 4:42:43

Inspired by Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden:

Quite cold already, as if he were cast,
The child sank through barren sky
Like an anchor.

The bobbing ship, quietly set adrift,
Abandoned its damp nets to marvel
At the fall:

What parody of sacred birth
Now plummeted towards mother earth?

The melted tumult of wax and feathers
Must have appeared divine in hue
To slackjawed sailors,

But no foamy triumph rising through sea
Nor nymph-led rescue awaited these wings
For final uplifting.

--December 2000

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Daedalus	Kid Icarus	Icarus Wings	Homosexuals of Greek Mythology
thrice	Ganymede	The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus	Once you have tasted flight: In defense of manned space travel
Theseus	Eilmer the Flying Monk	Need Another Seven Astronauts	Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Acarus	Menelaus	Stephen Dedalus	Influence of Natural Objects
Musée des Beaux Arts	April 4, 2003	MechAssault	You Should Be Sober
Thomas Wolfe on an airplane	Riding into the sun	Max Cohen	Nephelococcygia

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