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A Little Book on the Human Shadow
by Robert Bly
Bly's brief essays on the long bag we drag behind us: what we stuff into the shadow by age twenty and how to retrieve it. Poetic and useful.
Read it if…
you want the shadow explained by a poet.
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Skip it if…
you want clinical language.
Try instead: New Seeds of Contemplation →
Three things you will actually use
- We spend the first half filling the bag, the second emptying it.
- Projection is retrieval's first clue.
- Eat the shadow.
Do this first
Read 'The Long Bag We Drag Behind Us'.
Our verdict
The long bag.
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