Good insight Paul, but I'm afraid that I knew none of this. This pic is actually just a regular old feather that I wanted to do some still life shots of because I liked the lines in it...
Well, you said 'tragedy' and showed a feather, and I thought of the myth of Icarus, who built wings to escape his island prison, only to fly too close to the sun, and he burned and crashed.
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