Icarus Starts His Own Airline After Surviving a Fall and Gaining a New Perspective on Life
“My father was a great inventor but not a great person.”
Long after falling from the Sun and being presumed dead, Icarus has resurfaced into popular culture and the news, making a revelation, contrary to popular belief, that he survived his fall. Now, Icarus has learned his lesson and revealed he has even higher ambitions than flying close to the Sun: he wants to start an airline service. But even that is not the limit of Icarus’s dreams — he wants to defeat his nemesis, the Sun, once and for all, and eventually become an inventor who can fly a spaceship not only close to the Sun but into the Sun.
Here, at Bad Idea Magazine, we got a chance to speak with Icarus about how he survived his fall and his future goals, how pressure to live up to his father’s dreams has constantly put him in danger throughout his life.
Q: So, Icarus, let me ask the obvious question — how did you survive your fall from the sun? Archaeologists even found remains with your DNA and melted wax wings somewhere in the middle of Greece!
A: Thank you for asking. I must say I saw my life flash before my eyes as I was falling, when the wings weren’t working. But the presumption is I drowned when I fell into the…
