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the original overachiever who mistook a warning label for a suggestion.
means a figure from greek myth who flew too close to the sun on wax wings and paid for it.
from son of daedalus, the craftsman who built the labyrinth for king minos on crete; to escape imprisonment, daedalus made two pairs of feathered wings held together with wax, told his son to fly the middle course, and ikaros ignored him.
the warningnot too high, not too low, exactly
cause of deathwax melted, not the sun's heat itself
where he fellthe icarian sea, named after him
his dad's fatedaedalus made it to sicily fine
for instance
icarian sea — body of water near samos still bears his name
matisse's icarus — 1947 cutout print, black falling figure with red heart
bruegel's landscape — 1560 painting where his fall is barely noticed
nasa icarus probes — solar-studying missions named for the obvious irony