Dinosaurs, explosions and whisky
Dinosaurs. Explosions. Whisky. A place for my head.
(Source: pleatedjeans)
The Lament for Icarus - Herbert James Draper (1898)
“The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus’ wings is a late one, that of Ovid: in his Metamorphoses (VIII:183-235) Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public. He could not leave Crete by sea, as the king kept strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched. Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedalus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus. He tied feathers together, from smallest to largest so as to form an increasing surface. He secured the feathers at their midpoints with string and at their bases with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird. When the work was done, the artist, waving his wings, found himself buoyed upward and hung suspended, poising himself on the beaten air. He next equipped his son in the same manner, and taught him how to fly. When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax, nor too low, because the sea foam would soak the feathers.
They had passed Samos, Delos and Lebynthos by the time the boy, forgetting himself, began to soar upward toward the sun. The blazing sun softened the wax which held the feathers together and they came off. Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, and called the land near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child.”
clavicles: you do not exist
You are not in a place where I
can reach my hands out and grasp,
You are not at the other end of
any phone line of which I access,
I cannot write to you for I
no longer know your address,
I am not picking up the signals
that you have not sent.
There is a constant swarming sea,
tiny parts that…
“ The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. ”
Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley backstage at the Opry by Gordon Stoker. Dec 21st, 1957
Batman (1966)
(Source: gasstationsensei)
