{"id":8016,"date":"2024-06-29T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-lyrical-illustrated-celebration-of-the-changing-light-in-the-world-and-in-the-inner-world-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T20:31:42","slug":"a-lyrical-illustrated-celebration-of-the-changing-light-in-the-world-and-in-the-inner-world-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-lyrical-illustrated-celebration-of-the-changing-light-in-the-world-and-in-the-inner-world-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lyrical Illustrated Celebration of the Changing Light, in the World and in the Inner World \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWere it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,\u201d Junichiro Tanizaki wrote in the 1933 Japanese classic In Praise of Shadows<\/em><\/a>. As a physical phenomenon, shadows are one of the most beguiling phenomena of nature, emissaries of the entwined history of light and consciousness<\/a>; as a metaphor, they are one of the most illuminating perspectives on human nature. The lower our level of conscious awareness, the longer the shadow our past casts on the present. But even under the noonday sun of our highest consciousness, we are still rooted in our shadows and must befriend them in order to fully inhabit our lives. \u201cLearn to look when the sun of destiny plays with your shadows,\u201d Hermann Hesse wrote in his passionate field guide to being yourself<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The world of shadows, physical and psychic, comes alive with uncommon tenderness in There Was a Shadow<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) by writer Bruce Handy and artist Lisk Feng \u2014 the story, unfolding with a lovely rhythm partway between lullaby and villanelle, of a girl who ventures outside to discover that everything casts a shadow.<\/p>\n

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She encounters the \u201ctall, wide shadow\u201d of a hill and the \u201ctiny, look-closely shadow\u201d of a beetle, the shadows of her friends and the shadows of the birds, the soft blue shadow of moonlight and the warm yellow shadow of the kitchen lamp, the shadow of a feeling and the shadow of a dream.<\/p>\n

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Along the way, as the day\u2019s shadows grow longer and melt into dusk to become the \u201cdelicate shadows, hard-to-see shadows\u201d of the night, she also discovers that no shadow is fixed, that the loveliness of life is largely a matter of attending to the ever-changing light \u2014 the play of light on the water, the play of light on a face, the play of light in the mind. <\/p>\n

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There was a shadow.
It was a thinking shadow,
a shadow you could feel but not see,<\/p>\n

It was a worry.<\/p>\n

But like a bird\u2019s shadow,
the worry shadow darted,
flickered, and was gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Couple There Was a Shadow<\/em><\/strong><\/a> with The Shadow Elephant<\/em><\/a> \u2014 a tender illustrated fable about what it takes to unblue our sorrows and lighten the load of our heaviest emotions \u2014 then revisit this lyrical illustrated invitation to find the light in the dark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Illustrations courtesy of Enchanted Lion Books; photographs by Maria Popova<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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