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 without dreams and fantasies.

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