If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
When the odds are impossible -- do the impossible.
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.