Argentina: Racing Avellaneda fans welcoming the return of former club legend Natalio Perinetti, who died in 1985, after footage emerged of a "pale ghost sprinting down the touchline" during a win over River Plate.
Everyone feels like that about the place they grew up, my place just happens to be L.A. Of course, to me it's a pale ghost, but to someone else growing up now, it's their home.
I feel similarly about the pale ghost of a movie soundtrack that most TV's can deliver, and pumping the sound through my big old wooden stereo speakers is much better but not quite good enough.
With music sales pale ghosts of their former numbers, is it significant that it's a woman's market right now? Probably not.
Wellcome Collection, London NW1 from 19 September until 27 October Georges Seurat Bathers at Asnières (1884) I am haunted by the pale ghosts of tall industrial chimneys as working class men and boys pose still as statues beside and in the waters of the river Seine.
And there are certain exquisitely theatrical images: the entrance of the ailing Miri, a pale, Victorian ghost of a woman in her white lace nightgown; Nell and Bee basking like lizards in the California sun; Ev's fumbling, pathetic pass at Celia in a seaside diner.
And it was now so bright that the waxing moon seemed but a pale yellow ghost of itself, hanging huge in the sunset.
The quasi-angelic, nearly supernatural apparition of Harry at the end of "Sudden Impact" suggests that he had already envisioned himself as his own next hero, the one of "Pale Rider," a ghost of himself.
Its staging reflects us back to ourselves, like pale ghosts peering into the abyss, straining to hear a distant song.
