And I was just now reminded, as I was aobut to follow through, of the real reason I can't drop my dead friends: they are unable to reciprocate. There I'd be, refusing to read the journals of the dead, while they loyally go on reading my journal. I had managed to forget that until confronted with the little red and green arrows.

It's a damn good thing I'm mostly able to throw out the physical stuff of the dead.