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## Lithograph by John Meigs Courtesy NASA The promoters of utility ... follow the footsteps of poets, and copy the sketches of their creations in the book of common life. -Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. -Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow The Flying Machine and Modern Literature and to regain spontaneity and freedom ... must be ranked among the specific marks of man." 2 The Romantic attention to birds, then, can be interpreted as a recent expression of a primordial envy. As Homo signifex observed the mysterious creatures in the sky, he could not resist the desire to impersonate themand this mental action comprised his dawning consciousness of his distinct, and in some sense inferior, place in the Creation. The act of imitation carried forward by Homo faber of constructing the machinery of that desire was, by this definition, a later and inevitable development. Such at least is the line of evolution proposed by Shelley in the first epigraph to this book. Wondering which came first, the reality or the dream, the bird or the yearning for flight which recognized
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- Author
- Laurence Goldstein (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349085491
- Category
- nonfiction
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