g would perform much the same function as sense-perception performs now" (3-4). That would account for Chris's experience of emotion, as perceptions of in-life Ann are visited on him. Chris may feel as if he is alive, though he is immaterial in the material world, and his emotion legitimates this feeling. Price's text has it that human beings ""should still feel alive--or alive enough--provided we experienced emotions and wishes, even if no organic sensations accompanied these experiences" (Price 7). What is retained in the afterlife, according to Price, is the coherent sense of self as well as the emotional connections to sentient beings. The continuity of psycho-emotional experience is precisely Chris's experience of reality in What Drea
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