Well, it made me dream." Pause.
"It's a strange state," said Warming.
"It's a sort of complete absence," said Isbister.

"Here's the body, empty.

Not dead a bit, and yet not alive.

It's like a seat vacant and marked 'engaged.' No feeling, no digestion, no beating of the heart--not a flutter.

_That_ doesn't make me feel as if there was a man present.