Shadow Plays
Imagine you are a prisoner who has been trapped since childhood. Bound and shackled with your head restrained and facing the inside wall of a cave. You hear other prisoners but cannot see them because of the restraints. A fire is burning from behind the rock you have been chained to. Between you and the fire is a raised walkway where footsteps echo from unseen shadow actors . These actors carry objects above their heads that throw shadows reflected from the fire onto the wall in front of you all. As years go by, everything you see and know comes from the shadows projected in front of you. Eventually you are freed from the chains that restrain you only to find yourself faced with the arduous journey of making your ascent from the cave to the surface. Your eyes burn, overwhelmed with the sunlight you have missed out on all these years. You continue to adapt slowly finding yourself attuned to the intelligible world. As the sunlight continues to bathe your eyes, you feel overwhel...