They become versions of what in Vineland Pynchon called the 'thanatoid'--ghostly echoes of those who in the material world were dispossessed and downtrodden.
Roman this, livre that: call it what you will, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort remains, as its rather obviously thanatoid name suggests, a tome that never quite got itself off the table.
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