To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares, — to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost).
To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares, — to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost).