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    The Shadowy and the Sensory

    Sep 01, 2021 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    FROM THE VALLEY of the shadow in Psalm 23 to the “millions of strange shadows” in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 53, from Peter Pan to the long-running radio show shadows have suggested metaphors for the sinister and uncanny. For the poet and critic John Hollander, “their very insubstantiality has allowed shadows to be seen

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