Ghost Towns

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    Two thoughts were so mixed up I could not tell
    Whether of her or God he thought the most,
    But think that his mind’s eye,
    When upward turned, on one sole image fell;
    And that a slight companionable ghost ...
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)