"Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then
perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
I must admit that this last word is misleading, tending to
establish between certain beings and myself relations
that are stranger, more inescapable, more disturbing
than I intended. Such a word means much more than
it says, makes me, still alive, play a ghostly part,
evidently referring to what I must have ceased to be
in order to be who I am."