by nomad » September 2nd, 2010, 2:25 am
I also think that having the Bright People be some clothed, some not is an attempt to portray a sort of Eden. But I also think it is part of their progression as they travel "higher up and farther in". The more solid they become, the more at home they are in this place, the more they lose the remnants of shame and self-consciousness that still cling to them, the less they need clothes. Each one may start their journey into Heaven at varying shades of ghostliness/solidity but none are yet in their eventual perfect form and the transformation doesn't happen instantaneously.
All the ghosts seem equally ghostlike, however. Or maybe at the ghostlike stage small differences aren't visible.
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