The Great Bird Will Take Flight

"The great bird will take flight above the ridge...filling the universe with awe, filling all writings with its fame..."
--The Codex on the Flight of Birds, Leonardo da Vinci, 1506.

"...the first memory of my childhood is that it seemed to me, when I was in my cradle, that a kite came to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips..." --Leonardo's first memory