Odysseus returned at last, neither dead nor alive, somehow still attached to this ruined corpse-a spirit perhaps unwanted among spirits and forced to remain in the dead house of its body. (Whitley Strieber)

Odysseus returned at last, neither dead nor alive, somehow still attached to this ruined corpse-a spirit perhaps unwanted among spirits and forced to remain in the dead house of its body.

Whitley Strieber

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