Nicola wrote:
> That's Daedalus, Marion. Icarus was his son. .
> As for the likelihood of Daedalus story being a fictionalized
>account > of a true event, how do you plan to prove it?
>
I stand properly corrected for my carelessness in transposing the names.
As far as attempting to prove the fiction originated in fact, I would never
attempt to do so. [I have enough trouble convincing my wife that some of
_my_ accounts are fact rather than fiction.] I only raise the possibility
as a basis of speculation. In the hands of such a sharp fellow as
*Daedalus*, such existing materials as silk, bamboo, and rawhide thongs
could plausibly result in a workable hang-glider--though it obviously would
strain imagination past the breaking point to suppose he could make it from
Crete to Sicily on available thermals (either with or without his reckless
son).
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