ATD and ghosts/thanatoids

Gavin Findlay gavinf at homemail.com.au
Thu Mar 11 15:05:18 CST 2010


Back to what I first said

page 922 of the Jonathan Cape hardback edition:  "...but our dead  
never stopped belonging to us, they haunt us every day, don't you see,  
and we got to stay true, they wouldn't forgive us if we wandered off  
the trail".

sheesh

On 12/03/2010, at 12:27 AM, David Morris wrote:

> Your take on Thanatoids below may be what interests you, but I don't
> think it is in the text.
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Gavin Findlay  
> <gavinf at homemail.com.au> wrote:
>> Thanks fellas
>>
>> Th part that interests me is more the redemptive power of the  
>> Thanatoids/ghosts... people continue to be haunted until they have  
>> faced up to what they have caused, and returned to the trail.
>>
>> It's a very direct and very real concept.




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