Cycle of Cliches
So did the rest of the class.
A little later, that is, when the reading-aloud turns ended, while explaining the meaning of the poem he spoke in a fashion, as if it wasn’t a poem, but a story. The story of the patriot, he said, had another story within. And that another story, was the story of foolish Icarus.
Then followed the insight:
When you have wings of wax, don’t soar too high, don’t stoop too low.
The insight was too long and arrhythmic to remember. Unlike those short ones: As you sow, so you reap or A little learning is a dangerous thing. I couldn’t mug it up. So I had written it down on my notebook.