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That’s an evocative image – one’s shadow falling across another. It sounds kind of Shakespearian, if only because it can mean so many simultaneous things. That old crypto-Nazi Carl seems to think it’s a bad thing to cast one’s shadow, so let’s assume that there’s a thought of domineering and diminishing the freedom on another implicit in the image. Definitely bad! But query: When does withdrawal amount to a sterile, uninvolved, unresponsive isolation? Casting shadows – the mutual casting of shadows – is also a very Shakespearian image of love and friendship. I would contend it is essentially human. We’re just kidding ourselves if we think we don’t want to influence – or be influenced – by the other actors in whatever little theatre of humanity we strut and fret our days out on. –Just speaking for myself, of course, but most of the folks I’ve so far met on the planet (some now gone from the planet) seem that way too.

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