I wanted the feeling of spring but mixed with a ghostly, haunted feel".
Poland's grimy second city has a haunted feel today.
Some of the venues where dreams were made or broken, and spectators thronged, now have a haunted feel.
So it was surprising to find on a visit last week, that the same swatch of turf stretching from Northeast 38th to Northeast 42nd Street, had the oddly haunted feel of a schoolyard in August.
Spotting a black bear by the trailhead was an unnerving, if ultimately uneventful, start to my hike, but it was the towering trees that lined the trail, with their stubby branches draped in gauzy yellow lichen, that gave the route a spooky, haunted feel.
The most recent 2007 release, The Shepherd's Dog, contains the track "Carousel," a hypnotic piece with layers of luscious vocals and harmonies recorded with a phaser effect giving it that haunting feel.
And the more ambitious it becomes, the more haunted it feels, as if it were also growing a secret history.
The end of the novel, abrupt and death-haunted, feels as neat and tight as a key in a lock, and sheds light on the mysteries that have gone before.
Travel is my favorite stimulant, and while I was writing " The Impossible Exile," a portrait of the Viennese author Stefan Zweig, hunting-and-gathering expeditions to Zweig's far-flung haunts felt imperative.
Apple no longer feels haunted by the ghost of Steve Jobs; they're having fun again in Cupertino.
