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When Icarus fell from the heavens, he did not die but was carried,
unconscious, back to the island. He remembered vaguely that there was
some trouble his father had with a bull ... the toro,taureau, (bull) of
Minos the king. Ah, yes, his father had been held as hostage after
building the labyrinth. He must somehow get back to his father. He
knew his father would be somewhere in Athens if the old duffer had
succeeded to gettng home. His own folly in getting too close to the
sun was his father's fault -- he reasoned, in typical childish fashion.
He did have within his little skull a modicum of the canniness of his
sire. He invented a craft
that would be much more secure than the silly wax and feather devices of
his father. He called it "Born on Agua Toujours," craftily combining
some of his languages to have B.O.A.T., a concept still in use today.
He launched himself upon the waters and for twenty years had great
adventures and misadventures completely unknown to historians or tellers
of fables.
Now that this announcement has been made, writers have unlimited
opportunity to add to the literature of ancient times.
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