own guardian spirit through this chapter. But what he foresees is grisly, himself
as one of the living dead, a zombie haunting the ongoing processes of life among the
living. Remarkable as it may seem, this final vision is, in effect, an image of one
last Creature let go from his hands as a free and frighteningly independent agent
on earth: himself. Perhaps, however, that was what he became from the point at which
he matriculated at Ingolstadt and entered into the world of his obsessions.