Yet—yet there is a disturbing element in the picture. There is a place where the shadows go mad … When you purposely push yourself through layer after layer of Shadow, surrendering—again, purposely—a piece of your understanding every step of the way, you come at last to a mad place beyond which you cannot go. Why do this? In hope of an insight, I’d say, or a new game … But when you come to this place, as we all have, you realize that you have reached the limit of Shadow or the end of yourself—synonymous
