I'll try to answer myself. It sounds rather like Shadow is 'placeholder'. A cut-out to fill with whatever one feels most fitting.
Do you think we - each reader here - filled out the Shadow-sized hole with our own expectations? And what expectations?
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Originally Posted by Ea
There's this interesting quote from the book, by Laura:
' "I love you," she said, dispassionately. "You're my puppy. But when you're really dead you get to see things clearer. It's like there isn't anyone there. You know? You're like this big, solid, man-shaped hole in the world." She frowned. "Even when we were together. I loved being with you. You adored me, and you would do anything for me. But sometimes I'd go into a room and I wouldn't think there was anybody in there. And I'd turn the light on, or I'd turn the light off, and I'd realize that you were in there, sitting on your own, not reading, not watching TV, not doing anything." '
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