nereiids: argonauticae: landscape with the fall of icarus - william carlos williams #forever fascina
nereiids:argonauticae:landscape with the fall of icarus - william carlos williams#forever fascinated by the translations between mythology and history #the idea that the heaven-wracking events of myth #the murders and violations and revenges and glories; the blood and blades and fury #would register only as little & distant tremors in the landscape of human antiquity #how icarus’ wild doomed flight which dared the height & purview of gods could be just a dark flitting thing against the noon-bright sky #and his ruinous fall could be just a soft muted splash to another mortal ear #and how we overwrite events to give them a symbolic power #so that icarus’ flight becomes emblematic of the whole history of human daring and pursuit and endeavour and glorious failure #its resonance renewed every time it’s invoked within this fabric of shared cultural dreaming (elucipher) -- source link
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