Ghosts and Berger

I think that part of what he's reaching for is this kind of richness of the mythological. He's also thinking of it in relationship to stars, to our contemporary mythological figures who are greater than life and can't help but be screens for the projection of all kinds of desires and fears. The thing that's really amazing to me about Berger is how the mythological and the dead and the different orders of time are all woven together with a very kind of flat, realistic affect. It doesn't make any sense to say like, well, did the ghost of his mom really appear? Or is that really sociable? Of course not. But that this is what it means to have