If we pick up on your focus on the picture and prophecy, a comment from Romo Lampkin in 'The Son Also Rises' springs to mind: "There is no greater ally, no force more powerful, no enemy more resolved, than a son who chooses to step from his father's shadow." This could be a coincidence, a deliberate piece of narration prodded by the backstory, or a subconcious slip. Well, that's the only hard stuff I can find on "shadow". It seems to fit but I could just be dancing at shadows. Hah. Hah. very funny, Ron. What do you think, Brad? Is there something in that?