Read the excerpt below and answer the question. every skull he picks up is an illustrious skull. this one was leonardo. he invented the flying man, but the flying man has not exactly served his inventor’s purposes. we know that, mounted on his great swan (il grande uccello sopra del dosso del suo magnio cecero he has other tasks in our day than fetching snow from the mountain peaks during the hot season to scatter it on the streets of towns. (first letter, “the crisis of the mind,” p. 5) what is valery’s point about hamlet picking up leonardo’s skull? leonardo wanted to investigate the properties of snow. leonardo invented a flying swan. leonardo did not intend for his inventions to do harm. leonardo invented wings for flying.