Wow! And again you come up with a reading that is different - and brilliant!
Sam is a ghost, so living people, like Gene, look like shadows to him
That isn't what I meant, but it works, it really does. So well in fact that when I read it again with your interpretation it made me cry. If that's what it means, then perhaps Sam doesn't know he's a ghost, which is heartbreaking.
With this lovely comment you have given me a gift - I can now read this as if someone else wrote it, and react to it as a reader. Thank you so much for that.
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:04 am (UTC)Sam is a ghost, so living people, like Gene, look like shadows to him
That isn't what I meant, but it works, it really does. So well in fact that when I read it again with your interpretation it made me cry. If that's what it means, then perhaps Sam doesn't know he's a ghost, which is heartbreaking.
With this lovely comment you have given me a gift - I can now read this as if someone else wrote it, and react to it as a reader. Thank you so much for that.