did you ever see someone and have the feeling in your belly that they had no soul? maybe their soul was severed, or exiled, or left the body. i could make a list. i read that the absence of a particular soul indicates the existence of souls. i'm reminded of my dad, who seemed to me a cipher, a solid ghost, more present when absent, and witheringly absent when present. it may be his soul was just sleeping behind the buttress of his invented identity. if you want to dad please give me a sign. that's what i always wished.