I do like Hob. Will he die? I hope not. I like the ghosts--

I hope he gets to live in the tree they led him to!

Poor man, everything taken away.

(I'm always fascinated with that theme, which you've now mentioned twice: how does one survive with nothing? Where to start?

I once asked my sister how on earth we wound up with cars and telephones, when all we started out with was earth and trees.

How would I survive, I asked her, and make a sophisticated civilized environment for myself if I landed back in time in some grassy glade with just my bare hands?

Well, she mused, you'd first need to learn how to smelt...