Daedal

Let's confine ourselves to language – that eternal Orphic song, flowing with ‎ Daedal harmony, to quote Shelley. ‎

REGIME CHANGE, LANGUAGE CHANGE 2006

I'd like for us to play a show in Edmonton (ideally with like Daedal) but my van won't make it.

nessus Diary Entry nessus 2006

The old Greek word which is at the root of the name Daedalus, + the name of a craft rather than a proper name, probably means to work curiously -- all curiously beautiful wood-work is Daedal work; the main point about the curiously beautiful [238] chamber in which Nausicaa sleeps, in the Odyssey, being that, like some exquisite Swiss châlet, it is wrought in wood.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

And then, the effect of this Daedal skill in them was, that they came nearer to the proper form of humanity.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866