I SEE YOU NEVER, by Ray Bradbury, Published on The New Yorker, Nov.

8 1947 A soft knock on a kitchen door, Mrs. OBrian opens to find her best tenant, Mr. Ramirez, and two police officers. Hes been there for thirty months, six more than his temporary visa allows. In this time he adapted to the shining riches of his new life, worked at the airplane factory during the war, bought a radio and a wristwatch, jewels for his lady friends, and enjoyed the way of life. So here I am, to tell you that I must give up my room. -says Mr. Ramirez . He looks in again at the shiny kitchen, the lynoleum, the plentiful table at which Mrs. OBrians children are eating their steak. Youve been a good tenant - says Mrs. Obrian. She remembers a visit she made to some border Mexican towns, the crickets, the dirt roads, the bleached clothes. Im sure sorry, Mr. Rodriguez. Goodbye, Mrs. O'Brian. You have been good to me. Oh, goodbye, Mrs. O'Brian. I see you never The police officers take Mr. Ramirez away, Mrs. OBrian returns to her children, to her steak, but she stares at the closed door and drops her knife and fork. Whats wrong, Ma? -asks her son. I just realized,I'll never see Mr. Ramirez again. Source: http://www.shvoong.com/books/novel-novella/1825489-/#ixzz2MFfpMpRi

Author: Ray Bradbury First Published: 1947 Type of Plot: Psychological, social realism Time of Work: The mid-1940s Setting: Los Angeles, California Characters: Mrs. OBrian, Mr. Ramirez

The Story Mr. Ramirez, the landladys best tenant, is in the custody of two police officers, but he is initially unable to speak and therefore explain the reason for his arrest. Mrs. OBrian knows his past: that he traveled by bus from Mexico City through San Diego to Los Angeles, where he found work in an airplane factory during the final years of World War II. Throughout this time and into the postwar period, he had roomed with Mrs. OBrian. With his good salary, he was able to buy a radio, a wristwatch, and even a car, which was repossessed when he forgot to keep up the... (The entire page is 1668 words.) Posted 21 February 2004 11:47 PM Hide Post

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I don't know how to answer your questions. I'm not sure how to link it to his past. I would guess the intention might be to convey the sense of sadness we feel when someone who is a part of our lives will no longer be in our lives. Mr. Ramirez seemed to feel this loss almost immediately as he leaves. He inarticulately states it (I won't see you ever again) as "I see you never." Mrs. O'brien (the landlady) is sad, but it isn't until she sits down to dinner (almost immediately) and takes a bite of her food. She stares at the closed door, and puts her utensils down, and realizes she will never see him again. Mr. Ramirez will lose a home and family...the way he looks at the house, the kids, Mrs. O'Brien, and smells the pies (that are described as being like his skin and eyes), show that he sees this as a secure and happy place. Mrs. O'Brien remembers a visit she had made to where he will be going and the imagery is all barren -- heat, dead crickets and rabbits, slow horses, dirt roads, scorched landscapes. It looks like Mr. Ramirez is leaving heaven and going to a wasteland. It's only three pages long, but it is an interesting little story.

"The Way Up to Heaven"

Plot/Description Spoiler Warning! Mrs. Foster has a pathological fear of being late. Whenever she is in danger of missing a train or plane or an engagement, a tiny muscle near her eye begins to twitch. The worst part is that her husband, Mr. Eugene Foster, seems to torment her by making sure that they always leave the house one or two minutes past the point of safety. On this particular occasion Mrs. Foster is leaving to visit her daughter and grandchildren in Paris for the first time ever, and she's frantic to think that she'll miss her flight. By the time her husband finally joins her at the car, she's too far behind schedule. Luckily the flight is postponed til the next day, and Mr. Foster persuades her to come home for the night. When she's ready to leave the next day, though, her husband suggests that they drop him off at his club on the way. Knowing this will make her late, she protests in vain. Just before the car leaves, he runs back in the house on the pretense of picking up a gift he forgot for his daughter. While he's gone Mrs. Foster discovers the gift box shoved down between the seat cushions. She runs up to the house to tell him that she has the gift... and suddenly she pauses. She listens. She stays frozen for 10 seconds, straining to hear something. Then she turns and runs to the car, telling the driver that they're too late and her husband will have to find another ride. She makes her flight and has a wonderful visit with her grandchildren. She writes her husband every week and sends him a telegram before she flies home six weeks later. He's not at the airport to meet her though, and when she enters the house (after taking a taxi home) she notices a curious odor in the air. Satisfied, she enters her husband's study and calls the elevator repairman. It had jammed and she left him to die there! Roald Dahls short story The Way Up to Heaven first appeared in The New Yorker (February 27, 1954) and was included in his collection Kiss Kiss (1960). It concerns Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Foster, an affluent elderly couple who live in a six-story house on East Sixty-Second Street in New York

City. During their more than thirty-year marriage, Mrs. Foster has been a devoted wife, serving her husbands needs and subjugating herself to his overbearing will without resistance. He had, as Dahl writes, disciplined her too well for that. The Fosters live in their gloomy house with their servants; few visitors come to call. Their only child, a daughter, lives in Paris with her husband and their three children, the grandchildren Mrs. Foster loves deeply, even though she has never seen them. The most significant character traits of Mr. and Mrs. Fosterand their relationshipare established immediately through exposition. Mrs. Foster has a pathological fear of being late on any occasion; Mr. Foster torments her cruelly by making her wait for him, quite unnecessarily, past the hour when they must leave to arrive safely on time. She has suffered his delaying tactics for years on special occasions and has only recently begun to suspect that he deliberately causes her great suffering. The plot gets underway as the Fosters prepare to leave home for six weeks. She is flying to Paris to finally meet her beautiful grandchildren; Mr. Foster will move to his club while she is gone. He has dismissed all the servants in the interim to save money. He will come home occasionally to check for mail. Mrs. Foster is overcome with increasing anxiety as she counts down the minutes until 9:15 a.m. when they must leave in order for her to arrive at the airport. She fears that if she misses her plane, her husband will change his mind and not let her go at all. She wishes she could simply live in Paris and be with her grandchildren always. Mr. Foster finally appears at 9:22, but makes her wait again while he goes to wash his hands and otherwise delays getting in the car. Mr. Foster tells her that he will not bother to write to her while she is gone. On the drive to the airport, their chauffeur must slow down because the fog has rolled in. Mrs. Foster is beside herself with fear and worry that she will miss her plane. Mr. Foster tells her continually that her flight surely will be cancelled because of the weather. As her agony intensifies, the muscle in her eye begins to twitch nervously, as it always does when she is most distressed. Mrs. Foster is shocked when she realizes her husband is watching this nervous tic, well aware of the effect he is having upon her. Arriving at the airport, Mrs. Foster learns her flight has been temporarily delayed. Mr. Foster leaves her there. Mrs. Foster waits all day for her flight to leave, but it is finally cancelled until eleven oclock the following morning. She hates to leave the security of being at the airport, and she does not want to see her husband again; however, she is exhausted. Giving up, she phones her husband. The servants have all gone, but he insists she take a taxi and come home for the night. Back at home, Mrs. Foster suggests he not ride with her to the airport again the next morning. He agrees, but says their driver can drop him at his club on her way, even though his club is downtown, not on the way to the airport. When she mildly protests, he says, But youll have plenty of time, my dear. Dont you want to drop me at the club? Defeated once again, Mrs. Foster goes to bed.

The following morning, Mrs. Foster is ready by 8:30 for the car that will arrive at 9:00. Her husband appears after 9:00, asking for coffee. She did not make coffee. He then disappears to find some cigars, saying he will meet her at the car. At 9:20, Mr. Foster walks slowly down the steps to the car, pausing to check the weather. After finally getting into the car, Mr. Foster suddenly tells the chauffeur to stop as they are pulling away. He begins looking for a present for his daughter he planned to send with Mrs. Foster. As he searches through his various pockets, Mrs. Fosters suffering intensifies. When he says he will go back inside to look for it, she begs him to mail it later. Ignoring her, he commands her to stay in the car, and he goes back into the house. Mrs. Foster waits...and waits. She asks the chauffeur for the time: 9:30, barely enough time to get to the airport. Suddenly, she sees the small present wedged down in the crack of the seat on the side where her had been sitting. She notices that it had been wedged down firm and deep, as though with the help of a pushing hand. She quickly sends the chauffeur to bring her husband back, but the man returns at once, saying the door is locked. Mrs. Foster finds her keys and goes after her husband herself. As she fumbles with the key at the locked front door, Mrs. Foster suddenly stops, remaining motionless as she listens to some sounds from deep within the house. She listens intently, to hear and to analyze these sounds that were coming faintly from this place. Then she withdraws her key, runs down the steps, and leaves for the airport without Mr. Foster. As she tells the driver to hurry, a significant change has occurred in her; the softness is gone from her face, and she speaks with a new note of authority. During her flight to Paris, Mrs. Foster feels calm, strong, and quite wonderful. While in Paris, Mrs. Foster writes chatty weekly letters to her husband, always reminding him to eat regularly, although that is something Im afraid you may not be doing when Im not with you. At the end of her visit, Mrs. Foster returns home, but she does not seem particularly sad at leaving, almost as if she knew she would be returning soon. She sends a cable telling Mr. Foster she is on her way home. When she lands in New York, she seems interested that there is no car to meet her, perhaps even amused. Arriving home, Mrs. Foster rings the doorbell several times, waiting for an answer that does not come. She lets herself in with her key, noticing the large pile of letters on the floor where they had been delivered through the mail slot. The house is dark and cold, and she notices a curious odor in the air that she had never smelled before. She walks quickly to a place in the back of the house, disappearing for a moment to investigate something as if to confirm a suspicion. When she returns, there is a little glimmer of satisfaction on her face. She wonders for a moment what next to do. Then, using her husbands address book, she calls a repair service to come fix the Fosters elevator that is stuck between the second and third floors of their house. Ms. Foster waits for the elevator repairman, sitting patiently at her husbands desk. The Way Up to Heaven is notable both for its irony and for the foreshadowing of the surprising conclusion. The title itself introduces the first of many ironic elements, since it is the elevator in the Fosters house that conveys Mr. Foster to his death. It is also ironic that Mr. Foster meets his

demise because he insists on dismissing the servants for six weeks to save money, he insists Mrs. Foster return home when she is first stranded at the airport, and he returns to the house pretending to look for the present he has hidden in the car. The storys conclusion is foreshadowed in several subtle ways, including Mrs. Fosters recognition of her husbands deliberate cruelty, her desire to live in Paris permanently, and her lack of regret when her six-week visit comes to an end. The most obvious foreshadowing is her writing that she doubts her husband will be eating regularly while she is gone and her noticing the strange odor when she comes home. As a revenge tale, The Way Up to Heaven satisfies because Mr. Fosters sadistic behavior is so thoroughly redressed by the wife he so completely underestimates. Mrs. Foster did not plan to kill her husband, but when she saw a sudden opportunity to free herself from his cruelty and make a happy life for herself in Paris, she acted. Apparently she was not as well disciplined as her selfish and arrogant husband believed her to be. Plot summary The story is about a rich lady named Mrs. Foster, who has an "almost pathological fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat, or even a theatre curtain". She is planning to fly to visit her daughter and grandchildren. Her husband, Mr. Eugene Foster, a former businessman who is now retired, seems to revel in taking his time when preparing for this event, much to the distress of Mrs. Foster. Her husband wants to stay at a club in the time she is in Paris, and their servants are given six weeks off, retaining half-pay. The next day Mrs. Foster is terrified she will be late, and expresses her worries to the butler, Walker. He assures her that she will make her flight, but she persists. In spite of her worrying of being late for her flight, she arrives at the airport on time and soon finds that flights have been delayed because of bad weather. The car she arrived in has since left, and she continues to wait in the airport for further news concerning her trip. Finally, it is announced that her flight has been delayed until 11 am the following day. She calls her husband, returns home and spends the night there. The following morning as Mrs. Foster prepares to take her car to the airport, her husband announces that he should be dropped off at the club on the way, which terrifies her, it being somewhat out-of-the-way. Before they leave, he pretends to have forgotten a present he had intended for their daughter Ellen, and to Mrs. Foster's dismay he ventures into the house in search of it. As she grows increasingly impatient and anxious whilst waiting in the car, she notices the present - a comb - hiding in the crack of the seat where her husband had been sitting and "couldn't help noticing that it was wedged down firm and deep, as though with the help of a pushing hand ", and tells the chauffeur to call him down. He tries to enter and notices the door is locked. She decides to go herself, but then, with the key in the door she suddenly freezes, as if listening intently. After a few seconds, she returns to the car, says there is no time, and is driven off to the airport. She makes her flight with a few minutes to spare. Things go well in Paris, and she writes to her husband each Tuesday. When she returns to Idlewild Airport she is mildly interested to find her husband has not sent a car to meet her, but she gets into a taxi, arrives home, rings the

bell but no answer. She sees the mail has built up and there still is one of the servant's cloths over the grandfather clock, and smells a peculiar odour. Noticing that the elevator is not in order, she calmly dials for a repairman and waits at her husband's desk for his arrival. The implication is that Mr. Foster was stuck in the elevator, and that Mrs. Foster condemned him to death by leaving as the house was to be unoccupied for six weeks. She knew he could not survive in a stuck elevator for more than a couple of days, never mind six weeks.

The leg of lamb by roald dahl summary Mr Maloney, a police man, and his pregnant wife Mary lives a comfortable life in their cosy house, every evening celebrating their supper in an special way - first drinks, then meal. But one day it was different. Mr Maloney had his drinks as usual, but refused supper. Instead he told his wife, that he would leave her, not only this evening, but forever. At first Mrs Maloney did not believe it. She thought that if she went on with her normal life, nothing would change. So she got up and decided to prepare supper. The first thing she found in the freezer was a leg of lamb. When she brought it up stairs, her husband was looking out of the window, announcing that he would go out. At that moment she hit him with the frozen leg of lamb on the back of his head. Then she waited. After some seconds he crashed to the floor and was dead. Mary began to think hard as she did not want to go to prison. She put the lamb into the cooker, took her coat and went to the grocer's. There se bought some potatoes and beans. She told Sam that her husband was too tired to go out for supper and that she had a nice leg of lamb in the oven. She took a took a big piece of cream cake as desert as well. Then she left for home. On her way home she told herself, that she would find her husband waiting for his supper as usual. So when she found him dead in the living room, the shock was real and she began to cry hard. She phoned the police and two colleges of her husband, Charlie and Jack, came quickly. When they asked her what had happened she told them that she hat shortly left for the grocer's and found him like that when she arrived. A lot of other people came, a doctor, other police men, a photographer and sometime later Mr Maloney was brought away. Everybody left except Jack Noonan and Charlie O'Malley, who informed Mary that her husband had been killed by a blow with a heavy piece of metal on the back of his head. If they found the weapon they would get the murderer. So they hat a look if something had been stolen from the house. After some time Mary offered them a drink and suggested that they should eat up the lamb she had prepared. So Jack and Charlie

helped themselves to lamb and vegetables in the kitchen, discussing where the weapon would probably be found, whereas Mary began to laugh in the other room The Leg of Lamb by Roald Dahl Mary Maloney is a devoted wife and expectant mother. She waits happily each night for the arrival of her husband Patrick, home from work at the police station. On this particular night, though, she can tell something is wrong. In disbelief, she listens as Patrick tells her that he is leaving her for another woman. [Actually Dahl never really says this; the details are left up to the reader's imagination.] Dazed, she goes into the kitchen to prepare their supper and pulls a large frozen leg of lamb from the deep freeze. Still numb, she carries it into the living room and without warning bashes her husband over the head with it. As she looks at Patrick lying dead on the floor, she slowly begins to come back to her senses. Immediately she realizes the ramifications of what she has done. Not wanting her unborn child to suffer as a result of her crime, she begins planning her alibi. She places the leg of lamb in a pan in the oven and goes down to the corner grocery to get some food for "Patrick's dinner" (making sure the grocer sees her normal and cheerful state of mind). She returns home and screams when she finds Patrick lying on the floor. She calls the police and informs them that she found her husband lying dead on the floor. Within hours swarms of officers are searching the house and conducting an investigation. Mary's story of coming home from the grocer and finding him is corroborated as she had planned. While the police are searching fruitlessly into the night for the murder weapon, Mary offers them some lamb that she had prepared for dinner. They are happy to oblige. While they lounge in the kitchen and discuss the case (their mouths "sloppy" with meat), Mary Maloney sits in the living room and giggles softly to herself.

The Boy Who Drew Cats

A farmer and his wife had many children; the youngest son was too small and weak, and spent all his time drawing cats instead of doing his chores. So, they took him to the temple to become a priest. He learned quickly, but he drew cats everywhere. The old priest finally said he could not be a priest, though he might be an artist, and sent him away with the advice to avoid large places at night, and keep to small ones. He decided to go to a big temple nearby and ask them to take him on. The temple had been deserted, because a goblin-rat had driven the priests away, and warriors who went against it were never seen again. A light burned at the temple at night, so when the boy

arrived, he went in. He saw some big white screens and painted cats on them. Then he went to sleep, but, since the temple was large, he found a little cabinet to sleep in since he had remembered the priest's advice. In the night, he heard sounds of fighting, and in the morning, the goblin-rat was dead in the middle of the temple, and all the cats he had painted had mouths wet and red from the blood. When the priests found out, he was hailed as a hero, and he went on to become a famous artist; one who only painted cats! Plot Summary for The Boy Who Drew Cats (2008) More at IMDbPro Long ago in Japan, Joji, an artistically talented Japanese boy, is sent by his pragmatic parents to a temple to become a priest. However, all Joji wants to do is draw cats and not study. Knowing he is not right for priesthood, the priest sends Joji away. Joji wanders the barren Japanese landscape until he meets an old woman who points him toward an ancient temple. However, the old woman fails to mention that the temple had been deserted because a goblin, known in Japan as the Nezumi Mamono (who is basically a goblin in the form of a giant rat), had driven the priests away, and the warriors who went against it were never seen again. During the night, Joji finds his way into the temple and finds a lonely lantern, terrible sounds, and a monster approaching from the temple's corridors. He runs into a cabinet to survive the night, not realizing that he will discover his destiny. In the morning, the goblin-rat is found dead in the middle of the temple, and all the cats he had painted have wet mouths with red from the blood. Afterward, that boy became a very famous zen artist. Written by Brandon Rice

The Story The protagonist, the youngest son of poor, hardworking farmers, lives in a country village of old Japan. Because he is small, weak, and bright, his parents send him to the village priest to be trained for the priesthood. The boy learns well and pleases his master in almost all ways, but he persists in one act of disobediencedrawing cats whenever he can. Although warned to stop, he continues, as if possessed by a spirit, to draw cats in every color, pose, and mood. The boys disobedience causes the old priest to send him away with the advice to stop trying... (The entire page is 1417 words.)

The Open Window: Summary

Framton Nuttel has presented himself at the Sappleton house to pay a visit. He is in the country undergoing a rest cure for his nerves and is calling on Mrs. Sappleton at the request of his sister. Though she does not know Mrs. Sappleton well, she worries that her brother will suffer if he keeps himself in total seclusion, as he is likely to do. Fifteen-year-old Vera keeps Nuttel company while they wait for her aunt. After a short silence, Vera asks if Nuttel knows many people in the area. Nuttel replies in the negative, admitting that of Mrs. Sappleton he only knows her name and...
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GLOSSARY
PHRASAL VERBS & ADVERBIAL PARTICLES put up with me: tolerate me (soportarme, aguantarme, tolerarme) pointing out: making a remark (sealando, indicando)

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS & GENERAL GLOSSARY will be down presently: will come down soon (bajar enseguida) try and: try to (tratar de) the niece of the moment: the niece who was entertaining him at the moment (la sobrina destinada a entretenerlo) more than ever: he had already been thinking that these visits would be bad for him. Now he was even more certain (ms que nunca) total strangers: people he had never met and about whom he knew nothing (absolutos extraos) will bury yourself: will hide away from people (te encerrars) moping: living alone and feeling miserable (tu apata o depresin) rectory: the house of the rector or parish priest (parroquia, rectora) practically nothing: hardly anything (casi nada, poca cosa) your sister's time: the time when your sister was here (la poca en que se fue su hermana) out of place: unlikely, unsuitable to the surroundings (poco probables, fuera de lugar) French window: a glass door opening on to the garden (ventanal)

Summary of the open window,, Framton Nuttel has presented himself at the Sappleton house to pay a visit. He is in the countryundergoing a rest cure for his nerves and is calling on Mrs. Sappleton at the request of his sister. Though she does not know Mrs. Sappleton well, she worries that her brother will suffer if he keeps himself in total seclusion, as he is likely to do.

Fifteen-year-old Vera keeps Nuttel company while they wait for her aunt. After a short silence, Vera asks if Nuttel knows many people in the area. Nuttel replies in the negative, admitting that of Mrs. Sappleton he only knows her name and address. Vera then informs him that her aunt's "great tragedy" happened after his sister was acquainted with her. Vera indicates the large window that opened on to the lawn. Exactly three years ago, Vera recounts, Mrs. Sappleton's husband and two younger brothers walked through the window to go on a day's hunt. They never came back. They were drowned in a bog, and their bodies were never found. Mrs. Sappleton thinks they will come back some day, along with their spaniel, so she keeps the window open. She still talks of them often to her niece, repeating the words of one of her brother's favorite songs, "Bertie, why do you bound?" Vera herself admits to sometimes believing the men will all come back through that window. She then breaks off her narration with a shudder. At that moment, Mrs. Sappleton enters the room, apologizing for keeping him waiting and hoping that Vera has been amusing him. Mrs. Sappleton excuses the open window, explaining that her husband and brothers will be home soon, and she continues to talk on quite cheerfully about shooting. Nuttel finds this conversation gruesome and attempts to change the subject by talking about his rest cure, a topic which bores Mrs. Sappleton tremendously. But she suddenly brightens up, crying "Here they are at last!" Nuttel turns to Vera to extend his sympathy, but Vera is staring out through the open windowwith a look of horror in her eyes. Nuttel tums around to the window and sees Mrs. Sappleton's husband and brothers walking across the lawn, a spaniel following them, and hears a voice singing "Bertie, why do you bound?'' Nuttel grabs his hat and walking stick and flees from the house. Mr. Sappleton comes through the window and greets his wife. Mrs. Sappleton muses over Nuttel's departure that was so sudden it was if he had seen a ghost. Vera says that she believes it was the spaniel that frightened him; she tells her aunt and uncle that Nuttel is terrified of dogs ever since being hunted into a cemetery in India by wild dogs and having to spend the night in a newly dug grave. As Saki remarks at story's end, making up stories that add a bit of excitement to life, ''romance at short notice," is Vera's specialty. Summary of the open window by saki? Answer: Framton Nuttle, a nervous young man, has come to stay in the country for his health. His sister, who thinks he should socialise while he is there, has given him letters of introduction to families in the neighbourhood who she got to know when she was staying there a few years previously. Framton goes to visit a Mrs Stapleton, and while he is waiting for her to come down, he is entertained by her fifteen-year-old niece. The niece tells him that the French window is kept open, even though it is October, because her aunt's husband and her brothers were killed in a shooting accident three years ago, and Mrs Stapleton believes they will come back one day. When Mrs Stapleton comes down she talks about her husband and brothers, and how they are

going to come back from the shooting soon, and Frampton, believing she is derranged, tries to get her to distract her by talking about his health. Then, to his horror, Mrs Stapleton points out that her husband and brothers are coming, and he sees them walking towards the window, with their dog. He thinks he is seeing ghosts, and runs away. Mrs Stapleton can't understand why he has run away, and when her husband and brothers (who of course are not ghosts) come in, she tells them about the odd young man who has just left. The niece explains that Frampton Nuttal ran away because of the spaniel, he is afraid of dogs since being hunted by a pack of pariah dogs in India. (the niece enjoys making up stories about people).

Summary Story 1 Room 7: Mr Saunders is driving back to London

when he has a problem with the lights on his car. A mechanic in a village tells him that his car cant be repaired until the next morning. Saunders finds a hotel but the manager, Mr Richards, tells him there are no rooms available. Mrs Richards intervenes and says that room 7 is free, although Mr Richards seems uncomfortable about this. Mr Saunders has dinner and retires to bed. Later he is awoken by a light shining from a chair in the room. He sees an old man sitting in the chair looking at him, who says, I never knew, but you do and disappears. The next morning, he notices a picture on the wall that is exactly like the man he saw. Mrs Richards tells him it is Mr Richardss father who died in room 7 five years ago. She also says some visitors thought the room was haunted but that she didnt believe them. Mr Saunders leaves the hotel half convinced he has seen a ghost.