Daedalian

Page 259, quoted mostly because I like it: “The commerce and industry of the country, however, it must be acknowledged, though they may be somewhat augmented, cannot be altogether so secure, when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money, as when they travel upon the solid ground of gold and silver.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

Page 259, quoted mostly because I like it: “The commerce and industry of the country, however, it must be acknowledged, though they may be somewhat augmented, cannot be altogether so secure, when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money, as when they travel upon the solid ground of gold and silver.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

But when words are considered to be mere things, mere building materials for the Olympian-Daedalian Artist, something odd happens.

Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

The Mother Load P. J. O'Rourke 2005

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

The Mother Load P. J. O'Rourke 2005

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

The Mother Load P. J. O'Rourke 2005

With its 1964 aircraft accident rate being the lowest in USAF, the Strategic Air Command was named recipient of the Daedalian Trophy.

Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990

For its flying safety record in 1951, the Strategic Air Command received the Daedalian Trophy.

Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990

For its 1959 aircraft accident rate, the lowest in USAF, the Strategic Air Command was awarded the Daedalian Trophy.

Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990

'Daedalian plan' simplified by a look from above -- smeared out as it were by the splotch of some master thumb that made the whole involuted, boggling thing one beautiful, straight line.

Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892