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Max Porter

“Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.”

Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
tags: ghost, place, refuge, sleep
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