how do you decide what is real and what is not?
"i want to know, for example, why beauty exists, why nature
continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a
lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? if god
does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical
system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power?
lestat calls it the savage garden, but for me that is not enough."