Look at this little black dress!
The Queen wore this silk dress in mourning for her grandson Albert Victor, who died during the Russian flu pandemic in 1892. As the eldest son of Edward, Prince of Wales, Albert Victor was second in line to the throne; it was his younger brother who would in due course become King as George V, grandfather of Elizabeth II
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
