I chose this week’s postcard from the postcard box because the boats and the distant mountains made me think of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell, which I just finished reading. In the book, Jacob tells the story of Phaethon, who also fell from the sky.
Caption:
BRUEGEL Pieter I (1527/28?-1569)
La chute d’Icare
De val van Icarus
