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Survivor
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 |  Subject: Re: Volaero Mermaids  Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:48 am | |
| @Mikeimp: Spot on. In fact, one of the names I was toying with was "Icariamaid" after the aforementioned story. I think that since they seem to be in a transitional stage in evolution, doubts about their eventual success of true flight would be somewhat comforting to their potential prey.  |
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S-Guy
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| | Subject: Re: Volaero Mermaids Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:07 am | |
| | mikeimp wrote: | | This little section reminds me of the story of Icarus. To those who don't know, the story of Icarus is about a boy (Icarus) and his father who are held prisoner. The father invents two pairs of wings out of spare wood, wax, and fallen bird feathers. One pair for the father, the other for Icarus. They escape their prison (which is a tower or something) by jumping of the window's ledge and flying toward a nearby island. Icarus is warned by his father that the salty air will disolve the wax in a matter of time, and not to fly too close to the sun, but Icarus does so anyways (Just how some people are told not to look at the sun but do it anyways). The wax melts, thus Icarus falls to his death in the ocean. Icarus's father gets to the island, and hangs his wings as a grave for his son. In other stories, the father made the wings out o brass (or so I'm told) |
Ah that was it---Icarus. I was trying to remember what story that was but it kind of escaped me.  |
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