tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196212031802050727.post7290734382204865563..comments2023-10-16T11:06:46.696-04:00Comments on The 4-1-Run: Thoughts on IcarusMichael Vallianthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07407688300113271620noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196212031802050727.post-33722012735651325922010-09-28T22:52:50.171-04:002010-09-28T22:52:50.171-04:00Kelly, love your post here and on The Impulse Itse...Kelly, love your post here and on The Impulse Itself. I replied a bit there. The Icarus story has always resurfaced for me, but I've never written it down, just mulled it around in my head. The exhilaration of the singed wings but the fear of going too far and falling. And so restraint. And finding and walking that line that allows both views, without going over. To somehow inhabit both places. And that's not really the same, but maybe enough? Fu$%ing Icarus ;)Michael Vallianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07407688300113271620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196212031802050727.post-71428630025519852522010-09-28T17:31:49.928-04:002010-09-28T17:31:49.928-04:00Wow, first I am curious what prompts this...second...Wow, first I am curious what prompts this...second, I love this, third. Third! Icarus always pissed me off! That is my tragic flaw, for sure, blindness--righteous pride anyway. Reliance on the inner swing til it crosses--it always crosses-- Blake's line in to the threshold of mastery, of the only true significance (or so it's easy to convince the self, blind to the self...that this is the only significance, damn pride again) and there it all gets blurred: who's really in control now? Ha Mike I love that our trajectory, our inner poetics, turns so on the same spindle. This is the fall, no? These thoughts anyway for me, right on time. Thanks thanks thank you!kdada https://www.blogger.com/profile/00205903707655381027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196212031802050727.post-53504467375210611582010-09-28T06:15:35.944-04:002010-09-28T06:15:35.944-04:00Well said, sir. Yeah, me? Never been so good with ...Well said, sir. Yeah, me? Never been so good with rules...Michael Vallianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07407688300113271620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196212031802050727.post-44639772953014115272010-09-27T23:21:23.230-04:002010-09-27T23:21:23.230-04:00It is only when we've learned all the rules th...It is only when we've learned all the rules that we're asked to leave the game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com