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...Dyke's Daedalus and Icarus betrays the influence of Rubens. The choice of subject, the richness of hues, the transparency of the shadows, all are in the Rubens tradition. Reynolds has two other canvases in this collection-one of Lady Spencer and her son Viscount Althorp, playing with a black and white cocker-spaniel; one of the Marchioness Camden, seated with a naively histrionic air, upon the ground...
Nothing can any more be called impossible. The mirage of Ponce de Leon may be real after all, and a mere stop in a larger scheme. Daedalus and learus were myths until the Wright brothers clothed them in fact. And Julos Verne in his day was thought a spinner of idle fancies. Who knows but Karel Capek may prove a seer, and President Lowell realize his dream of "synthetic Freshmen...
From Icarus on, famous flyers have usually been less than 30 years of age ?famous pilots, that is. But it must be remembered that it was an older man, Daedalus, an engineer and a sculptor, who designed the Icarian monoplane and successfully flew it from Crete to Italy...
...Minotaur. The atr cities of this legend however were recognized in Plutarch's day as inventions, due chiefly to Athenian patriotism, which glorified Theseus at the expense of Minos. Nevertheless, Minos is in reality the sole and genuine embodiment of the political greatness achieved in Mycenaean days, just as Daedalus, the architect of Minos, impersonates the marvellous skill in handicrafts and arts that marked the days when Minos ruled the sea. Both of them are strangely metamorphosed by many whimsical legends which bear more or less on Knossian history. It is important to note, however, that the discoveries just made...