“Phantoms” “Phantoms” is the sixth story of the book “The man who mistook his wife for a hat”. The story presents some cases of sensorial phantoms that, in neurological terms, are images or memories of limbs that persist even months or years after their loss. The “Phantom” of an amputated hand, for instance, comes not only from the physical sensation of still possessing the limb but in some cases also comes from its sensitivity. Some patients feel pain in fingers, hands or legs they no longer possess and if they have to use an artificial leg they physically and psychologically put the non-existing limb into the artificial one, as if they had a map of their whole body that remained intact after a sudden violent amputation.   I took this photograph from a viaduct overlooking a train station. The continuity of the disused rail line was interrupted by a layer of gravel hastily thrown over it. The line was dead and closed to traffic but as a train passed on an active line just ten meters away the gravel shuddered and you could feel a vibration transmitted throughout the network. I perceived the whole network as one single nervous system and thought about Sack’s ghosts.