Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

In pain a new time is born.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?