Real or "Real"

Reality Hunger is definitely an interesting book. It is even more so since, as a project, I now have to create something that seems real, but actually isn't. Not that you care about it, really. If you do, send me an email, and I'd be glad to attempt to read it.

In quote 216, the author (well, someone else, I guess) says that "by eluding definitive observation, he remains perpetually real and perpetually imaginary." This caught my eye because it references to the Schrodinger's Cat experiment, which stated that according to quantum mechanics, a cat that may be dead but cannot be observed is dead and alive at the same time. Of course, here he's talking about writing: if we can't verify how legit it is, it's real and imaginary at the same time. This makes a lot of sense in my brain for some reason. Maybe it's because I like cats.

Quote 242 states that "our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any." I don't know how to feel about this one. What's more real than reality? *cue dramatic soundtrack* I don't know if it's trying to say that we, as humans, have created the concept of "real" or something like that. What I do know is that the quote is referring to the "now" and... yeah. No, but really. Documentaries aren't "real", reality TV isn't "real", and the news isn't "real". I now feel like a homeless man carrying around cardboard messages. Elvis was a woman. The end is nigh. The Queen of England doesn't exist.

Seems legit.

Quote 255 is short and to the point: "Facts now seem important." One, this implies that facts only seem important but is not necessarily actually so. Relating to the previous quote, these facts create an illusion of reality, something that makes us believe that it is real. Is it real? What is real?

It's true! I read it in a book!

Unfortunately, if I continued, I'm afraid my brain would leak out through the various pores located across my face. Of course, this isn't actually possible, unless the government has actually invented a top-secret potent device that can [REDACTED]