But that’s why you’re upset now. Fiction is not life.”You don’t believe that.”I think I do.”You know as well as I do that the line can’t be drawn, that we’re infected at every moment by fictions of all kinds, that it’s inescapable.”Don’t be a sophist,’ he said. ‘There is a world and it’s palpable.”I don’t mean that,’ I said. ‘I mean that it’s hard really to see it, that it’s all hazy with out dreams and fantasies.

But that’s why you’re upset now. Fiction is not life.”You don’t believe that.”I think I do.”You know as well as I do that the line can’t be drawn, that we’re infected at every moment by fictions of all kinds, that it’s inescapable.”Don’t be a sophist,’ he said. ‘There is a world and it’s palpable.”I don’t mean that,’ I said. ‘I mean that it’s hard really to see it, that it’s all hazy with out dreams and fantasies.

– Siri Hustvedt –

The Blindfold

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