User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-4867780-20141127015300/@comment-4867780-20141128103530

Self-deception can provide some level of comfort for a time, but deep down we all known with painfull certainty how vain it all was.

Fiction offers us the opportunity to escape the thought entirely, so we should just escape to ou heart content, instead of poisoning our dreams with the sour reality.