“Everything went wrong with the learned man. Sorrow and trouble pursued him, and what he said about the good, the beautiful, and the true, was of as much value to most people as a nutmeg would be to a cow. At length he fell ill. “You really look like a shadow,” people said to him, and then a cold shudder would pass over him, for he had his own thoughts on the subject.”
In this tale of “The Shadow” a man becomes lost seeking beauty through his writing while detaching himself from his shadow. This detachment represents a void in the man’s life and ultimately gets the better of him when his shadow outsmarts him.
Peter Pan