Pierrot! Mein Lachen
Hab ich verlernt.
(Pierrot! I've unlearned
My laughter.)
-- from Pierrot Lunaire
(Albert Giraud / Otto Erich Hartleben / 
Albertine Zehme / Arnold Schönberg)
Lear's Shadow Main Page

An experiment in the reading of events and patterns, whose title comes from William Shakespeare's King Lear, Act I Scene 4, when the King is slipping into madness:

Lear: Who is it that can tell me who I am? 

The Fool: Lear's shadow.

The original texts, photographs, and site design are Copyright ©1999-2009 by Douglas Ord.  All rights reserved.
Lear's Shadow was developed between 2000 and 2005 by someone who was accustomed to thinking in terms of books, 
and who has decided that books remain the preferred medium for thought and story.

If someone really feels a need to contact me, he or she can do so via dord@eol.ca.   But at this point, based on experience, I've got negligible trust in contacts made via the internet.  So please anticipate a healthy skepticism in regard to your motives.