Shadow: April 22, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#Shadow

Game on...on the radio...Dodgers at Phillies...Ohtani intentional walk..lol...I'm getting a repititive injury in my elbow from holding the phone!...Dodgers 3-Phillies 2...Dream: there's an intruder in the house, then another at the door...I open the door, and they, it, are, is, dressed like out of a horror movie...they barge in, and a flood happens...I wake up...and go to the bathroom of course...de la Cruz traded (nope-different player) to the Phillies, and waps a homerun...next batter with a double...Dodgers 3-Phillies 3...welp, figures in dreams are either figurative, or for reals...figurative, I must consider they are just me, like they are all my avatars...maybe some NPCs...they certainly seem to have minds of their own...and reports commonly have details in common...making them seem real...fringe entertains this, and Hollywood entertains us with them!...Jung calls the things Shadows, and he's off putting, like a phoney selling a scam...Freeman with a double...Muncie hits a homerun...changed hands with phone, but elbow stressed same while finger typing!...messing with dreams is so subjective...you really can't...they're gonna happen on their own...flea bite isn't helping on my elbow...wrote a weak poem...a doggeral...Dodgers 5-Phillies 3...Jung has it coming to grips with the Shadow is possible...magical, magical...walk up song from the ballpark...how'd that go?...physical...Olivia Newton John..."I want to make your body talk."...body talk is a thing...scene in movie Odyssey that argues the gods do communicate, give lessons, thru physical suffering and rewards we feel...body talk...Dodgers 5-Phillies 3...

Wind and Rain

Erosion from wind,
Erosion from wind and rain,
Erosion from rain.

Erosion does this
Everywhere anywhere
There is rain and wind.

The shadow knows this:
Where a shadow will fall first
Shadow boxing light.   

Your shadow alone
Gleans to every terrain,
Walks along with you.

Shadows are the wind,
Where ever there are shadows,
Shadows are the rain.

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The shadow knows this:
Where a shadow will fall first
Shadow boxing light.   


✨️The first morning shadows fall to the west because the sun rises in the east. These shadows then move throughout the day as the sun travels across the sky.

🎶AI spun out "first morning shadows"...that's good...I was just messing with "the shadow knows"-radio show..."shadow falls" T.S.Eliot The Waste Land, and, "shadow boxing"...Ohtani up...dbl play...bottom of seventh...

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Between the idea 
And the reality 
Between the motion 
And the act 
Falls the Shadow

🎶oh, the other de la Cruz, not from the Reds..."shadow" from the Hollow Men, but The Waste Land goes on about shadows too...top of eighth...

✨️T.S. Eliot familiar with Jung's concept of shadow?

✨️Robert Graves intruders dreams

Robert Graves addressed the concept of "intruders" and "dreams" across both his poetry and psychological prose, most notably connecting them to the lingering trauma of World War I. [1]

His work deals with these subjects primarily through three distinct lenses:

The double-self in dream theory

In his groundbreaking 1925 book, The Meaning of Dreams, Graves rejected traditional Freudian and Jungian interpretations. Influenced by his psychologist friend W.H.R. Rivers—who treated shell-shocked soldiers—Graves introduced the idea of the "double-self". He argued that dreams are a stage where our repressed, traumatized alter-egos act out conflicts. In this framework, terrifying "intruders" or threatening entities in nightmares are actually manifestations of the waking persona's hidden guilt, fear, and war neurosis trying to break through. [1, 2]

Through Nightmare

His poetic exploration of moving past these psychological intrusions is perfectly captured in his poem "Through Nightmare" (published in Poems 1938–1945). The poem speaks of a sanctuary or an idealized place of "the untameable, the live, the gentle" that can only be reached by venturing through terrifying dreams. Graves praises a lover's resilience for being able to navigate these psychological horrors: [1, 2]

"My loving admiration, that you should travel
Through nightmare to a lost and moated land..." [1]

 THROUGH NIGHTMARE

Never be disenchanted of
That place you sometimes dream yourself into,
Lying at large remove beyond all dream,
Or those you find there, though but seldom
In their company seated -

───

The untameable, the live, the gentle.
Have you not known them? Whom? They carry
Time looped so river-wise about their house
There's no way in by history’s road
To name or number them.

───

In your sleepy eyes I read the journey
Of which disjointedly you tell; which stirs
My loving admiration, that you should travel
Through nightmare to a lost and moated land,
Who are timorous by nature.

🎶hmmph...missed Graves wrote about dreams, slipped by...Hades is moated...he can be a patronizing pill...such I'm familiar with too!...a bases clearing triple by Tommy the Tank...Dodgers 9-Phillies 3...

✨️You are absolutely spot on. Historically, many of his peers, readers, and biographers have characterized Robert Graves as possessing a rather patronizing, arrogant, and exasperating personality. [1, 2]
The perception that he was patronizing stems from several well-documented areas of his life and career:
Sardonic Demeanor: During public appearances and in his lectures, Graves was known for being quiet but deeply sardonic, which audiences often interpreted as haughty and slightly condescending. [1]
Alienating Peers: He had a notorious habit of burning bridges and offending fellow literary giants. Contemporaries like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and T.E. Lawrence frequently felt wounded by his off-handedness and airs of superiority. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The "Robin Hood" Bookshop: When he ran a shop in Boars Hill, he operated on the philosophy of overcharging wealthy literary friends to subsidize poorer neighbors—a stunt that critics, as well as his own family, viewed as self-righteous and condescending. [1, 2]
Prose and Language Directives: In works like The Reader Over Your Shoulder (co-authored with Alan Hodge), Graves laid down rigid rules for English prose, adopting an authoritative tone that many writers found incredibly prescriptive and patronizing. [1, 2]

🎶"seek what is unique"...jingo from radio ad...someone must have coined that...

Seek What is Unique" is the global brand platform and campaign for Asahi Super Dry. It is inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Ichigo-ichie (the concept that every moment is unrepeatable) and the beer's crisp, dry Karakuchi taste. [1, 2, 3]
The campaign was created by advertising agency Havas London and features visually striking elements, including a cinematic film set in Tokyo and generative AI-powered outdoor advertisements. [1, 2]

✨️Ichigo ichie (一期一会) is a Japanese proverb translating to "one time, one meeting" or "one encounter, Ichigo ichie (一期一会) is a Japanese proverb translating to "one time, one meeting" or "one encounter, one lifetime". Rooted in the 16th-century Japanese tea ceremony, it is a mindfulness philosophy urging you to treasure every present moment because that exact configuration of time, place, and people will never happen again. lifetime". Rooted in the 16th-century Japanese tea ceremony, it is a mindfulness philosophy urging you to treasure every present moment because that exact configuration of time, place, and people will never happen again.

🎶just seeking is a task...ichigo-ichie... Cardinals 1-Angels 0...to ninth...analyzing "falls the shadow" a ceremony in the threads..."your shoes untied"...phillie fan kid shouting out batter distractions...bottom of ninth..."in the stands" when in N1 hypnopompic...electrons are all the same but every measurement unique

✨️...electrons are all the same but every measurement unique

Electrons are fundamentally identical excitations of a universal quantum field, which makes them inherently indistinguishable. However, every measurement is unique because we are measuring a specific, localized interaction with the particle's wave function at a distinct point in spacetime, rather than the electron in isolation. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
This beautiful paradox is one of the pillars of quantum mechanics and boils down to how we interpret the nature of reality: [1]

🎶fump...I'm Argus on the dung heap...Marsh up...K...Dodgers 9-Phillies 5...

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