Bill:

I just hope against hope that, should the occasion ever arise (which I hope it will not), that you have enough presence of wit not to become, yourself, a ghost. This can be usually prevented by making sure you have completed your major communications, resolved any old enmities, and foregone any undue attachments to particular things or locations, or any clinging to specific others for good or ill reasons.

But if through some unpredicted turn of fate you do find yourself compelled to hang around pondering and acting out and so on, after your merely mortal shell has moved on, feel free to come down and enjoy the surf and sun here in San Diego until you feel rested and ready to tackle some other mission.


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