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Why Shadows Were Invented
In 'From These Wilds Beyond Our Fences,' Bayo Akomolafe points out that
when Seventeenth-century physicist Francesco Grimaldi directed a focused
ray of sunlight in a dark room, managing the ray so that it struck a
thin rod and produced a shadow on a screen, he proved that light behaves
in unexpected ways. In fact, light is only one side of a whole,like yin
and yang. Thus "darkness is not the absence of light -- it is the very
dance of light...Light and dark are not opposites or estranged cosmic
forces that one side must defeatfor there are no 'sides.'"
