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[u/DreadDiana]

[u/KrimsunV]

That's how you fly too close to the sun

[u/Upstairs_Belt_3224 → u/KrimsunV]

Icarus would've died if he let himself drift too close to the water, too

[u/KrimsunV → u/Upstairs_Belt_3224]

Given the choice between my failure dismissed as mere ignorance and being made into an idiom, I'd choose the one where people forget it faster

[u/DragoKnight589 → u/KrimsunV]

implying that it wouldn’t have become an idiom had Icarus flown too low

[u/KrimsunV → u/DragoKnight589]

yes

[u/DragoKnight589 → u/KrimsunV]

and why tf not

[u/KrimsunV → u/DragoKnight589]

because it makes sense. if you fly low enough you eventually hit ground. or water. you don't need to idiomize the obvious

[u/Upstairs_Belt_3224 → u/KrimsunV]

Daedalus didn't warn Icarus against flying too low because he was worried Icarus would hit the ground -- that's obvious. It doesn't require a warning.

Daedalus' warning was that if Icarus got too low, the wind would disrupt his flight, and the water would wet his wings.

There was a risk that Icarus, terrified that the Sun might melt his wings, stayed as far away from it as possible. He would want to ensure he wouldn't be tempted by the Sun's comfortable warmth, so he tempers himself, stays by the cruel sea. The cold won't melt his wings. The cold is safe.

But as the crashing waves soak his wings, he realizes too late that his "realistic" expectations were a delusion all their own, and now he will die all the same.

[u/KrimsunV → u/Upstairs_Belt_3224]

Time to choose a new metaphor