Sleeping in the Playground
there is a difference between the real and dreams
“Once again I must repeat it—our world is populated by the sleeping, who have died and are dreaming that they are alive. That is why there are more and more people in the world, for it is populated by the sleeping dead who keep growing in number, while the real people living for the first time are few. In all this confusion none of us knows or can possibly know if he is someone who is only dreaming life or really living it.”
—Olga Tokarczuk, “House of Day, House of Night” translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Penguin Random House