"something can only become an illusion after disillusionment.……" — Lynda Barry
"something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could."
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Lynda Barry
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