Reigned in by shadows

Shadows on a wall
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The past throws its shadow onto the present. It might loom tall over everyday life like the shadow of a giant imposing its will upon everybody. Kemal Attatürk is such a giant. His legacy is still strong, his shadow still reigns politics in modern day Turkey. Germans still live within the shadows of the Holocaust. It's a shadow that weighs down on people's consciousness. Einstein is another shadow giant. Astrophysics is under the sway of the shadow he left behind. A shadow is nothing but the inversion of a fleeting exposure. But nevertheless it often holds tremendous power over people's minds and actions.