VL p. 246

[kelber at mindspring.com]

But aren't "real-life" (as opposed to TRP's literary ghosts) also formed by betrayal and disappointment?  The Thanatoids are tough to interpret.  Weed (and maybe Webb Traverse) become Thanatoid/ghosts because they've been personally wronged.  But the Thanatoids, with their tube-watching passivity and modest discontent, are also a reflection of Us.  We the Thanatoids haven't been wronged or betrayed - we're just smug and lazy and too comfortable with the way things are to get off our collective butt.  It's hard to reconcile both versions.

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

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>Frenesi's conscience: she sees his "long, stunned cringe"..a loss of spirit....some silvery effluent, vacating his image, the real moment of his passing".....He had just time enough to say Frenesi's name befroe the frame went twisting and flying off his face."..........
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>Here is the major way ghosts were created in VL...betrayal.
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