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Posted: 13 Nov 2022

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Dream of Flying

Dream of Flying
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 Dinesh
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Three thousand years ago a man thought that man might fly, and so he built himself wings, as Icarus -- his son -- trusting them and trying to fly, fell into sea. Undaunted, life carried on the dream. Thirty generations passed, and Leonardo de Vinci, spirit made flesh, scratched across his drawings (drawings so beautiful that one catches ones breath with pain on seeing them) plants and calculations for a flying machine, and left in his notes a little phrase that, once heard, rings like a bell in the memory ‘’ “There shall be wings.” Leonardo failed and died, ;but life carried on the dream. Generations passed, and men said man would never fly, for it was not w=the will of God. And then man flew, and the agelong challenge of the bird was answered. Life is that which can hold a purpose for three thousand years and never yield. The individual fails, but life succeeds. The individual is foolish, but life holds in its blood and seed the wisdom of generations. The Individual dies, but life tireless and undiscourageable, goes on, wondering, longing, planning, trying, mounting, longing. ~ Page 31

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