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| ‘Hito Kage No Ishii’, or 'Human Shadow Etched in Stone'. Photo: Universal History Archive / Getty Images |
Does the stone feel sorrow? […] I can
tell by your faces. It's a dangerous thing for an organization not to be sure
which of the objects in custody may be considered to be living. It raises
questions.*
“Can ghosts learn new
technology?” her sister asked, thinking
of what must come next, the endless conveyor of progress to which a whole human
history’s worth of spirits must adapt. The two them were silent for a minute, and
then images came crowding in: an elevator ghost pressing every button, feeling
its stomach drop out through the bottom of the world; a ghost unzipping its
message across the long, black telegraph wires; ghosts in the portal, reading
forever, tenderly holding down hearts.
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*The Employees, Olga Ravn, 34.
**Title and text: No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood, 202
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