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for every traveller there was a whole train of other people, invisible people, they had brought along with them. They were dragging their dead, their ghosts, their monsters, their etiolated shadows along with them.

I ddnt know the world was so densely populated. Each person seems to have five others with them. This is what makes the crowding so edgy .. Thats why journeys at the beginings are fringed with such tensions. Some people leave their ghosts, their dead behind on the platform, many carry them all the way. A few acquire new ghosts on their journeys.

Maybe that is what failure is, carrying more ghosts and shadow-beings around than one's pschye can manage. I cannot tell how many I have with me, but judging by the freakish state of my mind, I must be fairly mounting with them.

Ben Okri - In Arcadia !