was watching the dogs, thinking about the way they would normally kick over the poop, do the nonchalant, return to the earth, but they can't now. as with the exorcism, we need not a little poo dance but an enormous poo infrastructure to deal. also how they sense ghosts, or at least what is creepy. watching them zoom together, unflinchingly to one specific spot on a wall is like someone who visits your house and gets transfixed by your cabinet, by a painting, by a piece of wall. things have an interiority, another level that we can't perceive and that's creepy as hell. that's ghostly.

dust is because things can't return to the earth. it makes us cough because its life cycle is unnaturally extended, it forms dust bunnies, zombies, instead of disintegrating into new, fresh matter. it's like the undead, toxic until it can rest in peace.