spectre-of-body

Updated: May 1, 2025

And then, having thoroughly settled Ted for the rest of his years in such a solid and satisfactory way perhaps the queer gods that had everyone in charge, in spite of their fatal leaning toward practical-joking where the literary were concerned, might find enough applause in their little tin hearts for Oliver's acquired and vicarious merit to give him in some strange and painful way another chance to be alive again and not merely the present wandering spectre-of-body that people who knew nothing about it seemed to take so unreasonably for Oliver Crowe.

Stephen Vincent Benét - Young People's Pride : A Novel