Commerce avec les ombres

"The older you get the less afraid of ghosts you are — wether you believe in them or not. By the time you pass the fifty mark you've known so many people who are now dead that ghosts, if there are any such, aren't all strangers. Some of your best friends are ghosts; why should you be afraid of them ? And it's not too many years before you'll all be on the other side of the fence yourself."

(Fredric Brown, Night of the Jabberwock, New-York, Dutton & Co, 1950)