Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

Oriphiel was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. There is doubt, however, about whether he is male or female. In the end, she decided to be both and spends his life cruising along the banks of the River Styx by motorcycle, blaring underground garage rock from a transistor radio. Being both male and female, it's easy for her to find other ghosts to hook up with.

Originally Posted by Oriphiel

Heh, that just reminds me of the Muppet's Christmas Carol.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.