In Praise of Shadows
Shadows are interesting things. Jung wrote about them; Ursula Le Guin put one in The Wizard of Earthsea. These are shadows as characters and presences, not absences; they are shadows as substance. Ged, in his wizardly battle with his nemesis Jasper, tries, against all the rules of magic, to raise the spirit of a dead…
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Graham Strugnell 