Mort - more real

“All right,” he said. “Fine. We all do what we can. I just hope Mort has come up with some ideas.”

“It’s hard to have confidence in a ghost,” said Keli. “He walks through walls!”

“I’ve been thinking about that,” said Cutwell. “It’s a puzzle, isn’t it? He walks through things only if he doesn’t know he’s doing it. I think it’s an industrial disease.”

“What?”

“I was nearly sure last night. He’s becoming real.”

“But we’re all real! At least, you are, and I suppose I am.”

“But he’s becoming more real. Extremely real. Nearly as real as Death, and you don’t get much realler. Not much realler at all.”

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Mort p153-154