‘My Shadow’ (a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson) is told from the perspective of a child who is trying to understand what purpose his shadow serves. Enjoy ;-))
'My Shadow'
~~~I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.~~~
Topview of the origami Mooser's dragon. Like the 'real' dragon shadow ;-)))
In the first comment box you can see two other images of this dragon.
Model: origami Moose's Dragon
Design: Emmanuel Mooser
Diagrams on the CD: The Origami World of Neal Elias by Dave Venables and Marc Cooman
Folded this origami dragon from one stroke of elephant paper 1:8 ( 7x56cm). Final size: length 17,5cm, height 9,5cm, width 1cm
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