I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, โdelusionsโ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. Itโs the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.
Thomas PynchonShe thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
Thomas PynchonWhatโs this? What are the antagonists doing here โ infiltrating their own audience? Well, theyโre not really. Itโs somebody elseโs audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.
Thomas Pynchon