... being compared to Deadalus and that he is (or will be) a great artist, just as Deadalus was a great artificer. This is the connection that Stephen himself sees and is aware of, "his name seemed to him as a prophecy" (pg. 173). If you look deeper however, there are other allusions to the myth that cause us to think otherwise ... was in flight. His soul was soaring in an air beyond the world and the body he knew was purified in a breath and delivered of incertitude and made radiant and commingled with the element of the spirit. An ecstasy of flight made radiant eyes and wild his breath an...

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