Thanks to John Richardson (1934-2011) and Raquel Welch (1940-2023), who died yesterday at the age of 83, and to their appearance in the 1967 film One Million Years B.C., primitive people will remain in my imagination for ever with impeccable…
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least