The Boy Who Flew Too Close

Daedalus, master craftsman of Crete, built wings of wax and feathers to escape King Minos's imprisonment. He warned his son Icarus to fly the middle path—neither too low where sea spray would weigh the wings, nor too high where the sun's heat would melt the wax. But Icarus, drunk on the ecstasy of flight, soared higher and higher toward Apollo's chariot until the wax ran from his wings like tears. He plummeted into the sea that now bears his name—the Icarian Sea—a grave for hubris and a monument to the terrible beauty of reaching for the divine.

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